I support mass incineration, not mass incarceration of those convicted of felonies. Here’s why …
I have long been a proponent of the death penality, as the death penality provides a finality in justice and ends a life that provides no further use to society based on the past actions of a person. If it’s fine to junk an old car, throw a tin can or bottle made out of non-renewable resources into a landfill, it’s certainly fine to discard the life of a human being who has engauged in horrific violent acts or other horrific acts that society has deemed a felony.
I support an all felony death penality. There should be only one penality for those convicted of a felony — any felony — and that is death by execution. But execution need not be a grizzly process, it could be highly automated and done in a fast, reliable way like using a specialized waste-to-energy plant that would quickly incinerate the carcasses of those convicted of felony level crimes. Rather then the slow and painsteaking process of lethal injection, death by fire at over 2,000 degrees would quickly kill and vaporize the carcasses of those convicted of felony. As such plants would only be burning human carcasess, the waste stream would be controlled and emissions could be controlled much better then those plants that burn solid waste — while producing renewable energy to keep the lights on in the cities.
Some people would object to that plan, on grounds that it reminds them of how the German Nazis killed those of the Jewish faith during World War II. Genocide is a horrific crime against mankind — it’s an action that takes place outside of law. It’s immoral to target whole classes of people based on their race, religion, gender or belief. But executing people who have committed serious crimes against other individuals is neccessary to protect order, and conserve limited resources. Replacing mass incarceration with mass incineration of those convicted of felony-level crimes is a logical step towards conservation of resources, deterring crime, and protecting society. A serious criminal — one who has committed a felony — who is executed will never be able to commit another serious crime.
Opposition to the death penality on grounds that is unfair to the accused never made much sense to me. Death penality cases always get more review because of the finality of the decision. In contrast, people sentenced to jail or prison for decades often get minimal review. It could be argued that long-term incarceration is much more painful to an individual then whatever pain comes during an execution. A few milliseconds of horror is much less pain then years of incarceration. Mistakes are sometimes made in the justice system, but a low-cost, high efficency execution system, like centralized waste-to-energy for convicted felons would free up millions to compensate those families who loved ones lives were wrongly taken by the state. While a multi-million dollar payment can’t make up for a life wrongly lost, it can give a grieving family the financial security they need to put food on the table.
I believe our current system of mass incarceration is cruel and abusive — especially compared to a system of mass incineration of convicted felons. Mass incarceration ultimately puts society at risk because most people who are incarcerated are ultimately released from prison — often bitter without life skills needed to succeed. Felons are left permanently disabled without the rights that they had before they were released. Felons lose their civil rights such as the right to own firearms, to vote, to hold elected office. Felons can’t hold many jobs and are often denied housing. But this becomes a moot point if all felons going forward were executed, their lives ended so they would never be able to be part of society again.
I am opposed to wounding rather then killing those convicted of felonies. I just think it puts society at risk and wastes resources to incarcerate individuals for many years, then release broken individuals back on the street. Many violent acts could be prevent if all felons were executed going forward — and the policy was that nobody convicted of a serious crime is allowed to go back on street. Obviously, we couldn’t change the law retroactively, but we could prevent future crime and save millions with highly efficient waste-to-energy centers that disposed of those criminals convicted of felonies going forward.
