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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4332882" data-attributes="member: 5412">I follow the 8th, but the feeling of vengeance in the human spirit that experiences a heinous crime in close proximity and see's the brutality in that murder want the worst to happen to the perpetrator, so they experience the same pain and fear the victim did. The founders knew the history of such vengeance and how it was carried out, sometimes much worse than the original crime. So, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution was written to prevent that. The criminal has years to prepare themselves for their death. Not the same choice they gave their victims, but that has to weigh heavily on their minds when the day comes close to their demise. The 8th makes us humans willing to right a wrong, but not taking the wrong too far.</blockquote>