Hours before Joseph Stanley Faulder was set to execution the Supreme Court issued a stay of execution, or a stop. He was a Canadian national facing a lethal injection for the 1975 murder of an elderly east Texas oil matriarch. Faulder was sentenced to death for beating and stabbing to death 75-year-old Inez Phillips at her home in Gladewater during a robbery in July 1975.
Do you think that he should have been put to death for what he did? Especially after lying to the government and living under false identity. Or do agree with his death penalty being lifted? Should it be up to place where the crime is committed or up to where that person came from?
I think he should be put to death because it is equal punishment for him to die since he took some other persons life. Sentencing him to life in prison is worse anyways since it just costs the state more money to keep him in jail.
I don't get why they put a leave on his death but yes i do think he should be executed because he murdered an innocent taking their right to life so why should he have his right to life?
I think that he should receive a lethal injection for what he did. An eye for an eye. I don't understand how this could have possibly been lifted. There is proof that he did it, and like Nick said prison costs the government money.
Taking someones life comes along with a lot of issues. I wouldn't have a problem with it but i am not crazy about the idea. The answer should never be to kill someone. What he did was horrible but if i were in the shoes to di it, i wouldnt be able to kill someone.
Why did the government send an order to stop? This man is obviously deserving of enormous consequences. Personally, I believe that the death penalty is a fair consequence for certian crimes, including this one.
I don't have a clear stand on death penalty but he should be fairly charged for the crimes he committed. I think the court decision should take place in where the person committed the crime because no matter where one comes from, if one is in one country he or she should follow the rules of that country as long as he/she is staying there. If that person breaks the law in that country, he or she should be charged according to the laws of that country.
I do not support the death penalty. "an eye for and eye ends up making the whole world blind" - Ghandi (it was something like that i cant remember exactly). yes what he did was horrible and wrong but wouldn't we be just as bad for killing him? What i think we should have done is keep him solitary confinement for life or hand him over to the Canadian officials after we put him through or courts so he can go through Canada's justice system. And from there figure something out.
I believe this man should be put to death for what he has done. I do not understand why they issued a hold on it and how people can be so indecisive with a decision like this.
I don't support the death penalty at all. I agree with what Daniel said and I agree with the quote from Ghandi. If he killed someone and then we go right ahead and kill him too, what makes us any better? He does deserve a punishment for his crime but I don't believe we should ever take anyone else's life. The death penalty makes us murderers as well.
I do not support the death penalty. I also agree with Daniel and Ashley, killing him would make us just as bad as he is. I feel it is almost a worse punishment to be in prison for life than to be put to death. Death is the easy way out.
