Interesting Poll Results

[mr_genius]

The first to quote a modern French novelist

 

 

boo

[Texsox]

This bloke is working on the buses and collecting tickets.

 

He rings the bell for the driver to set off when there's a woman half getting on the bus. The driver sets off, the woman falls from the bus and is killed.

 

 

 

At the trial the bloke is sent down for murder and seeing as it's Texas he's sent to the electric chair. On the day of his execution he's sat in the chair and the executioner grants him a final wish.

 

 

 

"Well" says the man, "is that your packed lunch over there?"

 

 

 

"Yes" answers the executioner.

 

 

 

"Can I have that green banana?" the man asks.

 

 

 

The executioner gives the man his green banana and waits until he's eaten it. When the man's finished, the executioner flips the switch sending hundreds of thousands of volts through the man.

 

 

 

When the smoke clears the man is still alive. The executioner can't believe it.

 

 

 

"Can I go?" the man asks. "I suppose so" says the executioner, "that's never happened before."

 

 

 

The man leaves and eventually gets his job back on the buses selling tickets. Again he rings the bell for the driver to go when people are still getting on. A man falls under the wheels and is killed. The bloke is sent down for murder again and sent to the electric chair.

 

 

 

The executioner is determined to do it right this time so rigs the chair up to the electric supply for the whole of Texas. The bloke is again sat in the chair.

 

 

 

"What is your final wish?" asks the executioner.

 

 

 

"Can I have that green banana in your packed lunch?" says the condemned man.

 

 

 

The executioner sighs and reluctantly gives up his banana. The bloke eats the banana all up and the executioner flips the switch.

 

Millions of volts course through the chair blacking out Texas. When the smoke clears the man is still there smiling in the chair. The executioner can't believe it and lets the man go.

 

 

 

Well, would you believe, the bloke gets his job back on the buses.

 

Once again he rings the bell whilst passengers are still getting on, this time killing three of them. He is sent to the electric chair again.

 

 

 

The executioner rigs up all the electricity in America to the chair, determined to get his man this time. The man sits down in the chair smiling.

 

 

 

"What's your final wish?" asks the executioner.

 

 

 

"Well" says the man, "Can I have that green banana out of your packed lunch?"

 

 

 

The executioner hands over his banana and the man eats it all, skin included. The executioner then pulls the handle and a zillion million trillion volts go through the chair.

 

 

 

When the smoke rises the man is still sat there alive without even a burn mark. "I give up" says the executioner, "I don't understand. How you can still be alive after all that?"

 

 

 

He stroked his chin. "It's something to do with that green banana isn't it?" he asked.

 

 

 

"Nahh" said the bloke,"...I'm just a really bad conductor."

[mr_genius]

Is jailtime even a deterrent anymore?

 

 

 

uhhh, yes.

 

believe it or not, the vast majority of people would rather not be in prison.

[southsider2k5]

uhhh, yes.

 

believe it or not, the vast majority of people would rather not be in prison.

 

I would also guess that a majority of murderers in states like Texas would rather not be executed either...

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

Is jailtime even a deterrent anymore?

 

Seems to me when people commit a crime they aren't thinking about getting caught much less the punishment they'll have to face...

 

 

Very true.

 

 

I guess we should stop incarcerating people too since the deterrent effect isin't there.

 

 

Maybe bribing criminals to behave would work better.

 

:rolly

[Queen Prawn]

 

LMAO - the electrical engineer in me really likes that joke.

 

As for Mr Tookie, with everyone that has died because of his gang and likely his own hands, I just can not bring myself to feel any compassion for him. Maybe as Gov Terminator said, he had shown some remorse for what he did, I might be able to develop some compassion for him.

 

Gotta say "Executioner" is not a job that I would ever want.

[sox4lifeinPA]

The first to quote a modern French novelist wins. Congrats Soxy! (edited) And by Soxy I meant LCR.

 

 

it has been previously established that Camus is a moron. The aforementioned contest has been disqualified.

[sox4lifeinPA]

LMAO - the electrical engineer in me really likes that joke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ah, the english language is a funny thing

[Soxy]

The first to quote a modern French novelist wins. Congrats Soxy! (edited) And by Soxy I meant LCR.

I like those rules of debate.

 

And PA actualy might enjoy a book called Camus and the minister--which traces Camus' (alleged) conversion later in life. Also, if you read his books in order, there could actually be an argument for some sort of religion enterring into his life.

 

In case it ever comes up on Jeopardy! one of my top 5 favorite books is The Fall. I've worn out 3 copies. . .

[mr_genius]

I would also guess that a majority of murderers in states like Texas would rather not be executed either...

 

i agree

[Texsox]

I would also guess that a majority of murderers in states like Texas would rather not be executed either...

 

But not all. One this year requested and had granted a speedy execution. He spent less than 3 years on death row. And in the fine Huntsville tradition, he emptied his prison account by buying pints of blue bell ice cream for all his friends on death row.

 

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/13398396.htm

 

IVINGSTON, Texas - Pints of Blue Bell ice cream purchased for the men housed in the Polunsky Unit of Texas' death row usually mean one thing - someone is about to die.

 

In what's become somewhat of a tradition, a condemned inmate preparing for execution empties his prison trust fund and uses the money to buy the handful of inmates on "death watch" each a $1.29 pint of ice cream.

 

"I used to like ice cream," condemned inmate Luis Ramirez said. "But now I eat it out of respect."

 

Ramirez had eaten his share of pints before buying a round himself in October, when he was executed for the 1998 murder-for-hire plot in which a San Angelo firefighter was killed.

 

Ramirez was one of 19 Texas prisoners executed by lethal injection in 2005, four less than in 2004 but about average for the past decade in the nation's most active death penalty state. Texas accounts for more than one-third of all the executions in the United States.

while Alexander Martinez, on death row for only about 2 1/2 years, voluntarily went to the death chamber in June, asking appeals be stopped so he could die for killing a Houston prostitute in 2001.