Joseph Duncan must die
Forget about whether you’re for or against the death penalty. Really, who still has energy for that debate? Can we agree, at least, that Joseph Duncan must die?
As cnn.com reports, Joseph Duncan kidnapped a brother, Dylan, and sister, Shasta, ages 9 and 8, and raped them and forced them to perform sex acts on each other. I should mention that he also bludgeoned to death their mother, their 13-year-old brother, and their mother’s fiance. Those facts are not in dispute. Oh yeah, according to the sister’s testimony, Duncan accidentally shot Dylan in the abdomen and, deciding that he wouldn’t survive, then shot him in the head and killed him (it is somehow relevant to the death penalty case against Duncan that Dylan would have survived had he received medical attention after the shot to the abdomen, had Duncan sought medical help for the boy he tortured and shot). Also, let’s not leave out that “Duncan, formerly of Tacoma, Washington, has a long string of arrests and convictions for crimes ranging from car theft to rape and molestation.”
You might be against the death penalty, for whatever reasons, and I won’t try to convince you otherwise. But capital punishment is legal, currently, and if we’re going to execute people at all, it’s obvious that Joseph Duncan must die. He’s not innocent, he’s not going to reform himself, he’s not the victim of a racist justice system, and he’s not going to suffer emotionally by having to live with what he did. He needs to be dead, to never have even another enjoyable moment, a pleasurable cigarette, a breeze, a last meal. Joseph Duncan must die. If you don’t think the government should do it, then hope for vigilante justice. If you don’t think any human being should take a life, then hope for a bolt of lightning. Something.
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My only objection to killing him out of hand is that he would miss the years of abuse at the hands of his fellow scumbags when they find out he is a child molester.
Still, if it saves a few million dollars on the inevitable appeals, I am all for it.
I’m with you, Scott. It is certainly the only response Mr. Duncan is likely to get the point of.
The sad thing is that people like that often don’t seem to care if they are going to be killed. Some seem to even want it. Death is a way out for them.
I am a fierce death penalty opponent, and yet it’s hard for me to even shed any tears for this monster. People like this deserve worse than death. I am tempted to say that we should have legalized torture in this country for just these sorts of cases to give them a taste of their own medicine, but that would be wrong for a number of reasons.
So yeah, I’m completely against the death penalty, but I admit it’s really hard to care about the life of this scum in particular.
I’m a big fan of death penalty in cases where there are no mixed feelings (e.g., rape compounded by murder), but knowing what they do in prison to child molesters, I’d waive it in this case. He won’t last long in general population, and we the taxpayers can save money on appeals.
i have absolutely no sympathy for this kind of murderer, i would kill him myself without the shadow of guilt or remorse but i want to ask a question here, getting rid with that monster, don’t you think it’s an easy way to get rid with the problem of these monsters; a cheap way not to adress the problem and so doing make it perpetuate, what kind of satisfaction or relieve do we find in killing the killer, it’s fascinating to notice that the killing becomes contagious as soon as we talk about such monsters, we can’t find a more efficient way to distance ourselves from them but to resemble to them, to act against them like they did, with all the brutality and the cruelty they used with their innocent victims, like a mirror turning their own violence against them, morally we can afford it, after all if in my fantasy i torture, i kill, okay , but i kill a killer, i torture a monster so i am not a monster, ok i am a killer, i am a torturer but it’s for the good cause, and it’s only fiction, my point is that i am afraid these fictions we are feeding our conscience with have something to do with the violence those killers unleash on their innocent victims, when i consider this painfull case or others why do i have to use the same means than the torturer, i am not the avenger this is no longer a crime scene, this is not the best way to deal with these murderers, kill them, torture them to death you won’t solve any problem, you will just find a temporary solution for your own violence, if it is what you are looking for don’t feign you are concerned about our chldren safety, becaue the only thing we acheive in killing a sadist killer is to bury the problem with his body till the next horror, there is only one way to correct these aberrations and only one hope to diminish their manifestations it is to listen what those who committed them have to tell us, and may be what we have to say about our own violence, we have yet a lot to learn about the mechanics of violence and sadistic behaviour, we can learn a lot from these monsters, like it or not we need them alive…
Joseph Duncan should die… and the people should not have to pay for his appeals or for him sitting in jail for 15 years until he finally gets it. When there is a clear-cut case like this… when there is no shadow of doubt over what happened… He should no longer be allowed to breath the same air as the rest of the human race.