I confess to having grave reservations about the imposition of the death penalty IN SOME CASES. Unless there is unimpeachable evidence (DNA and not eyewitness accounts for example) can we 100% be assured the accused murderer is guilty? If so, why do some get off with a life sentence (or 20 years whichever comes first) and others are condemned to die? If a person is guilty I don't give a shit whether or not his/her death is a painful as possible, but there have been cases over the decades where innocent people were accused and imprisoned, only later to be freed based upon DNA evidence.
I'm not talking about a piece of shit like that Islamic terrorist at Ft. Hood, whose atrocities were committed in the light of day with many, many witnesses to all the victims he took down. He should have been burning in hell about a day after it happened. No, I'm talking about the nebulous perp whose conviction is based solely upon circumstantial evidence and/or eyewitness statements.
I have no clue about this executed murdering rapist's case. If he was guilty and there was more than circumstantial evidence to convict and execute him, then I hope he's roasting the marshmallows in hell for terrorizing bastards like Hassan Nidal or whatever the **** his name is...and if there's solid evidence against the murdering rapist then I couldn't care AT ALL how much he suffered; I pray he experienced the epitome of agony his crimes deserved.
And BTW any Dumpshit boohooing about the fate of any US prisoner should take a gander at the living conditions in most of the rest of the world's prisons. And consider how YOU assholes would react to the loss of one of your beloved family members at the hands of one of our horrible society's misunderstood people. ::)You Dummies are nothing but a source of perpetual amusement to some here, and to some, a source of amazement that we could be breathing the same air as you cretins.
Meanwhile, as others have stated before me, WHERE are your tears of pain and your understanding for the helpless tiny developing babies whose brutal death inside the wombs of those who SHOULD have been their devoted mothers you shrug off and explain away with shit ass slogans like Choice? May as well say the murderers in this world are operating on this same principle of CHOICE you seem so keen on. 
Alcatraz was an interesting institution. I have read many a story and ideas of how that place worked. I found that 4 Chefs were hired to make the prisoners meals a delight, something to look forward to and keep their moral up, even those in the HOLE and solitary ate better then most of those on the streets.
Then there was Andersonville, few mention what went on in the Unions POW camp in Chicago, some said it was worse then the Southern Camps.
There are things much worse then death, to die is a normal part of life, so to execute a tormented man or woman may in fact be a kindness to them.
People do not live long in total isolation, never to hear another humans voice, read a book, know what time of day or night it is, what day or month it is, kept in a cell where the lights never go out. Totally sound proof, never to hear a bird sing or a dog bark, no sounds of others moving about. Never to leave the cell and the only sounds are what you make. No reflective services so one cannot even see their own face.
The only out is for there to be a box in the cell with a one shot revolver to be used when the prisoner has had enough and decides to end it all.
Here it is not the state but the prisoner themselves decide to end it all. They have the choice to live or die and when.
Choice that their victims never had, pro-choice that the Libs insist on, Society did not kill them they killed themselves.
