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Thread: Walter E. Barton - Missouri Execution - May 19, 2020

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    Senior Member Member Dillydust's Avatar
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    It always kind of bugs me when you see an execution like this go down and there are no witnesses from the victims side. It takes the state decades to do the execution, and by the time they get in with it, family or friends of the victim aren’t around anymore. No one is around from the victims family to finally see the justice. Gives me a weird feeling in my stomach. It should not take decades for justice to be served. I know personally if someone was on death row for murdering someone in my family, I myself wouldn’t care how long it takes just as long as I’m around to see it. Honestly I know the conditions on death row, they aren’t very pleasant and it’s not like the inmate was living a great life for decades. However, I know not everyone thinks like me, in fact. Most probably don’t. It shouldn’t take this long for victims family to get the justice they deserve.

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    Yes that’s true however, Missouri is an efficient death penalty state. This was its oldest death row inmate that was eligible for execution under US law. If you look at the wave of executions they had from 2013 to 2017, most of them on average spent 15 years on death row and they were around 40 years of age.

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    Case is 29 years old. They had to sit through five trials and all these bs appeals. He even got a stay last week, they probably didn't want to sit through more drama.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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