# I pit the morons who applaud people be executed in Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 16, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539 "2011-09-16T17:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/81 "2011-09-20T18:54:18Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > If it upsets you to see people rejoicing in the death of others, stay off the SDMB when a prominent Republican dies. > > Regards, > Shodan Since we’re already in BBQ Pit, I can ask a question I’ve wondered about. Did **Ten-Kyu** use to have a brain? Dopers respond to him as though he were a sentient human. I’m guessing he once was, had a stroke that left him a blithering idiot, and Dopers tolerate him now out of pity. No? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/82 "2011-09-20T19:06:55Z")
No, you are just stupid. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/83 "2011-09-20T19:29:30Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Yes, I agree that the strategy existed. > > I object to the inference that it’s a major force today, and I assume you agree if you’re quoting Melman’s apology for truth. > > If the sins of a party follow it forever more, then why aren’t the Democrats guilty for the very tactics sgregationist tactics that gave them the southern stranglehold that the “Southern Strategy” sough to burst? Bull Connor? Democrat. George Wallace? Democrat. Jim Folsom? Democrat. It is a huge win to get a Republican to admit the strategy existed, now let’s work on getting one to admit that it still exists, although it has shifted from fear of blacks (althought they still love to play that race card when they can) to Muslims, illegals, and gays. The Ukrainians have a great saying: “new pants; but the same ass.” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/84 "2011-09-20T19:38:50Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > The Ukrainians have a great saying: “new pants; but the same ass.” They only said this when you changed your underwear. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/85 "2011-09-20T19:44:13Z")
What the fuck? Did some petulant 12 year old hack **Shodan’s** passwords or something? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/86 "2011-09-20T21:33:21Z")
I’m a bit confused as well, so far as I can remember, that’s the only three words he’s addressed to me in, like, ten years? What, is there a “change of life” for guys? Manopause? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/87 "2011-09-20T21:46:59Z")
Posting while drunk? ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/88 "2011-09-20T22:24:17Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Where the hell do you get off applauding the deaths of people, even if you think they deserve it? Fuck you. FUCK YOU! It makes me so angry that people can honestly feel so good about killing other people. OBL. What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/89 "2011-09-20T22:35:52Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > No, you are just stupid. > > Regards, > Shodan Did your shift leader make you cut off your mullet? Don’t let it get you angry, it’s a food safety issue. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/90 "2011-09-20T23:03:37Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > OBL. > > What do I win? Nothing. Many of us did not shed a tear when bin laden was killed, however… we still did not applaud and go “fuck ya” when it occurred. Better that he should have been brought back for a trial, so the US could have showed the world that it was about justice, rather than paramilitary executions, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/91 "2011-09-21T00:58:31Z")
Well, OK, a trial. What, exactly, do we mean “trial”? Set on extreme way over here, Stalin’s show trials, where evidence, reason, and any semblance of justice is moot. Set the other extreme at the objective, evidence driven trials Americans aspire to. Could we find OBL guilty with the same procedures we extend to streeet criminals? Could we prove it, or would we fall back to “Fuck it, we know he’s guilty.” I’m betting thats one of the major reasons we don’t try the Guantanamo detainees. We may have very good reason to think some of those people cannot be released. But we can’t prove it. Hearsay, evidence gained through harsh interrogation? Nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/92 "2011-09-21T04:49:37Z")
From AWAD today: [QUOTE=Albert Camus] But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/93 "2011-09-21T05:08:17Z")
In some states the cause of death for an executed prisoner is homicide. What else can you call it? I suppose cruel and unusual punishment. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539/94 "2011-09-21T05:14:22Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > From AWAD today: Of course such monsters are encountered in private life, and then when they are caught they are frequently put into institutions at the taxpayers expense. However, those folks tend to confine and kill innocent people, not people who have committed a serious offense(s) against society. There is a big difference. > [@gonzomax](#): > > In some states the cause of death for an executed prisoner is homicide. What else can you call it? I suppose cruel and unusual punishment. You call it what it was - electrocution, lethal injection, whatever. Hard to believe that any state would call it homicide. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-morons-who-applaud-people-be-executed-in-texas/596539.md?page=4)