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Karmic Law.....Crime and Punishment in From the mouth of madness

Revised: 12/29/2014 6:25 p.m.

  • Dec. 28, 2014, 6 a.m.
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I firmly believe in Karmic Law meaning that you get what you give meaning that if you do good you’ll receive good, do bad receive bad and the end will be comparable to the deed(s) done.
Earlier in the year their was a botched execution by means of lethal injection in Oklahoma of Clayton Lockett. Lockett was strapped down on a gurney and had IV’s placed in both arms, 1 for the actual injection and the other as a back-up. Most lethal injections use a sedative and/or paralytic and a drug to stop the heart resulting in a pain-free and “humane” death basically meaning that the offender goes to sleep feeling no pain and to never wake up again.
In the case of the Lockett execution, he had a vein blowout causing only small amounts of the drugs to do directly into his bloodstream causing him to convulse violently, and trying to speak and breathe. He lived an additional 43 mintues before eventually dying of a heart attack.
Lockett was convicted in 2000 for his violent acts committed in 1999 of murder, rape, forcible sodomy, kidnapping and assault & battery and sentenced to death for his crimes.
With all this being said, here is the million dollar question of the day....did the punishment fit the crime(s)??? This is just my opinion but I think it does with the exception that I personally think his suffering should have lasted just as long as that of his victim.
I know that all across the country there are harsh sentences handed out that don’t fit the crime committed, for instance a 3 year prison term for the non violent crime of the possession of a single joint, for example. Our judicial system isn’t perfect by any means and it does seem to at times to let mostly good people get punished harshly for minor offenses while letting others that commit more serious crimes to slip thru or get the proverbial slap on the wrist.
When it comes to the death penalty, I’m sort of in the middle of the road on the issue unless it is a case involving child molestation and the like and in those cases I think the death penalty is to good for them and personally think their punishment be long and harsh but that’s just me though.
Their are people on both sides of the death penalty issue in those states that have it in their books. I am quite sure that their are those that are wrongfully condemned to death just as well as their are those that commit a heinous murder and end up in psych hospital because they were able to play the mental card or drugs to keep from being put on death row.
Our justice system isn’t perfect by no means and never will be but it’s the only one that we have. I do believe that the punishment should fit the crime. In the case of Clayton Lockett I sincerely believe his punishment did fit his crimes especially in the eyes of the victims family and friends.


Last updated December 29, 2014


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