Did anybody else 'feel' for him when he was being prepped for the chair?
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no, i didn't feel sorry for him. there's a theory he committed his final rampage in florida because they have a mandatory death penalty for capital murder.
i do feel sorry for his victims, but i thought they were portrayed in a more human light in the mini series "the deliberate stranger".
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Actually, yes.
I'm not disputing the fact that he was a very cold-hearted and cold-blooded killer but his vulnerability really came out in those scenes.
I found that and the death scene very powerful because you almost felt his anxiety. Well I certainly did and I'd have to be totally heartless not to have felt a pang of sympathy - but I might add that I wasn't thinking of his victims at that point, just his fate. Had they peppered it with a montage of screaming girls trying to escape from his clutches whilst they were stuffing his rectum with cotton wool, I may have thought differently like 'Take it and like it you murderous fiend!'
Killing people is barbaric so it always felt hypocritical to me that you deal with a killer by killing him in a brutal and painful way. Double-standards. Bundy should have been put to work, never set fre again but sentenced to a lifetime of hard labour, never elligible for parole.
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i myself don't believe in the death penalty. seems counterproductive, and it gives someone an "out" that those person's victims weren't afforded. however, in bundy's case, i don't feel sorry for HIM. why should anyone waste their time feeling sorry for someone who never felt a thing for human beings or any lifeforms in general? anyway, he was a smart guy, he knew florida death penalty laws.
if there was anyone i'd feel sorry for who was executed in florida, it would be aileen wuornos. that woman suffered all her life, then finally snapped. on the other hand, ted bundy had a chance to make a decent life for himself. just because he was born with a broken psyche doesn't mean he should murder like he did.
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Well I suppose it's either to spare the staff the job of cleaning him up, to spare the onlookers the additional distress of seeing a man open his bowels and wet himself (they put an incontinence pad on him also and most onlookers do feel distressed even though they volunteer to be in attendance - they have a choice), or both.
I guess it's just standard procedure carried out for hygiene reasons as everyone defecates and empties their bladder when they die. Maybe it's one small piece of dignity that they afford the dying man/woman (Like the last meal, prayers and do forth).
But yes, the way in which the movie depicted the prison officers seemingly being harsh (well the Uncle of the younger guy who was largely doing the deed), did seem a bit sadistic.
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No, in fact, I felt that the punishment was too kind for that creature. They should accidentally let some prisoner rape him and beat the crap out of him.
shareI gotta say, that *beep* deserved to fry. Man, I wish MY career involved the final, clinical humiliation of such individuals by shoving huge wads of cotton up their rectums and frying their brains into mush. Yeah, he deserved it. Cops.... sadistic??? I would have been SOOOO much worse..... They appeared to me to just quietly enjoy the duties delegated to them by the state. Does the death penalty take innocent lives? Admittedly, yes (and I suppose for that reason I ultimately do not envy these individuals their jobs). But in the case of *beep* like Bundy, well, that's what it was made for. I think in the case of a real, dyed-in-the-wool serial killer who has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt to have committed his crimes, you should subject them to a bit of their own MO. Of course, our constitution prevents this. But it would have been nice to let an inmate club his skull in and rape him as he lost consciousness and died.
sharefeel for him ? are you stupid ? lol did you watch the things he did ? :sigh:
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shareThat never actually happened in real life. So no. I didn't feel for him =)
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By 1989 they weren't packing the condemned prisoner's rectum with cottonballs anymore. So that didn't happen in real life.
And no, I didn't feel sorry for him. That was the only mildly funny part in this so called 'black comedy'.
i love the death penalty. on the extreme off chance i ever do something that would put me in line for the death penalty i would love to have it. im sorry but i wouldnt care if it was a few years or chance at parole but i cant imagine the awfulness that is prison and would much rather die than spend any amount of time there.
so as far punishment i (obviously) think its worse to get life or 25 years or w/e so these people should not be put to death... but i just feel better knowing the DP is around...
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Yes I felt sorry for him and always empathize with the condemned when I watch movies involving the death penalty.
His crimes were horrible. So is the death penalty. We are alone among the western democracies in still using it (just like we are the odd man out on universal healthcare and religious fanaticism). And for those of you who will say, "What if it were someone in your family"?, here is an organization of victims' families who oppose capital punishment:
http://mvfhr.blogspot.com/2009/09/changing-ones-mind.html
I find it interesting too that evangelical christians are most fervent in their support for the death penalty. Jesus certainly didn't endorse it.
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"I find it interesting too that evangelical christians are most fervent in their support for the death penalty."
Wow, Filmscribe. Bet you didn't realize you're a bigot.
wowm screenscreams I bet you didnt' realize you were an idiot. How does pointing out a FACT make me a bigot
shareYea, scribe, I'm confused by that one. Some people who say they follow Christ actually clammor for others' deaths - the Westboro Church, anyone? They say they're followers of Jesus, but everything they do goes against every single aspect of the man. Baffles me...
I'm not a big one for vengeful thoughts, either. But, I'm torn because I do believe Bundy's spirit needed to be removed from this planet. The more one knows about the real Bundy, the more I've been agreed with on this.
But, it is not a fact! It is something that bigots want to believe.
No, my first impulse was to feel for him but then instantly I thought this was nowhere near how his victims suffered. I wanted to be there and tell him, "This is only a tiny bit of how you made your victims feel. I know you can't feel empathy but this way that you feel right now is how you made them feel."
shareyes i felt bad for him. i wanted to cry. i didn't feel sorry for the victims though
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The purpose of that scene was not to evoke sympathy for Bundy, but rather to emphasize what a crybaby coward he was. Somebody who could dish it out, but not take it. He was pathetic.
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