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— Former CIA director James Woolsey, telling CNN that leaker Edward Snowden should be convicted of treason and given the death penalty in the wake of the terrorist attack on Paris.

It just doesn’t pay to anger Kim Jong Un,
And nodding off in his presence simply is not done.
When it’s time to execute you,
They don’t just shoot you.
They stand you in front of an anti-aircraft gun.

McCain: Lethal Injection Should Be Lethal

July 25, 2014 Buck Banks

The lethal injection needs to be an indeed lethal injection and not the bollocks-upped situation that just prevailed. That’s torture.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Politico.

Rather than Give Up Capital Punishment, Majority Would Opt for Alternate Methods of Execution

May 15, 2014May 15, 2014 Buck Banks

8%

Of respondents in a new NBC News poll suggested hanging as an alternative to lethal injection, while 20% favored the gas chamber, 18% were for the electric chair and 12% for firing squad. One in three said that if lethal injections are no longer viable — because of drug shortages or other problems — executions should be stopped altogether rather than returning to more primitive forms of execution.

Perry: Execution ‘Botched,’ Not ‘Inhumane’

May 5, 2014 Buck Banks

I don’t know whether it was inhumane or not, but it was botched.

— Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), quoted by The Hill, on Oklahoma’s trouble carrying out the death penalty last week for a convicted murderer.

Oxymoronic Quest for ‘Humane Execution’ is Moronic

December 16, 2013December 16, 2013 Buck Banks

The oxymoronic quest for humane executions only accentuates the absurdity of allowing the death penalty in a civilized society. It’s understandable that Supreme Court Justices have tried to make the process a little more palatable; and there is a meagre kind of progress in moving from the chair to the gurney. But the essential fact about both is that they come with leather straps to restrain a human being so that the state can kill him. No technology can render that process any less grotesque.

Tag: capital punishment

Woolsey: Hang Snowden High

It’s still a capital crime, and I would give him the death sentence, and I would prefer to see him hanged by the neck until he’s dead, rather than merely electrocuted.

— Former CIA director James Woolsey, telling CNN that leaker Edward Snowden should be convicted of treason and given the death penalty in the wake of the terrorist attack on Paris.

North Korean Smithereens

McCain: Lethal Injection Should Be Lethal

The lethal injection needs to be an indeed lethal injection and not the bollocks-upped situation that just prevailed. That’s torture.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Politico.

Rather than Give Up Capital Punishment, Majority Would Opt for Alternate Methods of Execution

8%

Perry: Execution ‘Botched,’ Not ‘Inhumane’

I don’t know whether it was inhumane or not, but it was botched.

— Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), quoted by The Hill, on Oklahoma’s trouble carrying out the death penalty last week for a convicted murderer.

Oxymoronic Quest for ‘Humane Execution’ is Moronic

— Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the New Yorker.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I will if he does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.”

— George Clooney, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, responding to Donald Trump’s call for him “to get out of politics.”

– Donald Trump feeble-mindedly mistaking Bagram, an airfield in Afghanistan, with ANWR, a wildlife refuge in Alaska.

“You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world. That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact.”

— “Donald Trump Jr. suggested on Thursday that Haitian immigrants were less intelligent than people from other countries, and claimed that there was demographic evidence to back this up. He provided none,” the New York Times reported.

“Well, I’ve given up. Every time I come on I want to really talk to you about substantive issues. I don’t want to talk to you about this clown sh*t.”

— James Carville, when asked on a podcast about Laura Loomer.

“I observed him to be a man who is not mentally fit for the job … He’s a narcissist, and he’s a pathological liar.”

— Former Rep. Jim Greenwood’s (R-PA), on MSNBC, explaining why he’s voting for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

Numerati

59% to 57%

48 out of 51

A recent study showed that for healthcare coverage, access and affordability for women, Florida ranks 48 out of 51 states including Washington, D.C. For prenatal care, the state comes in dead last – 51 out of 51, WUSF reports.

47%

52% to 46%

A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters nationwide, 52% to 46%. It’s the same margin as before the debate which voters say Harris won by 58% to 36%.

50% to 46%

A new Data for Progress survey finds Kamala Harris now leading Donald Trump by four points nationally, 50% to 46%.