Dragging Death

Cincinnati Reds rookie Dernel Stenson was murdered in what appears to be a dragging death in Arizona.

(ESPN just reported that it appears, rather, he was shot, and then run over by possibly his own SUV....doesn't make it any less cruel, in my mind)

You know...with all the cruel and unusual crimes we have going on nowadays (Malvo and Muhammed; those bags of excrement in New Jersey who starved their boys; the mass murderer who killed 48 women, has admitted to it, and gets life in prison because he admitted to it)....it makes a man question the whole No Cruel and Unusual punishment clause.

Maybe in crimes where a victim dies an a cruel and unusual way....the cruel and unusual punishment prohibition could be waived.

We could limit it to hobbling, or crucifixion.

How about having to face a firing squad every three months or so. One that aims only at the arms, legs and genitals?

I'm all for matching the punishment with the crime. Let somebody who drags somebody to death behind their truck, be dragged to death behind a truck.

Maybe the families of the victims should get to decide how the convicted killers get to spend the rest of their existance. You know, the courts take a killer off the street forever. And it's the family that gets to decide that killer's destiny from here on out. Whether that means sitting in a jail cell, or dying by lethal injection. Or being subjected to daily draggings or twice-yearly hobblings or whatever their hearts desire.

Yeah.