in court here yesterday a mother was sentenced to 2 life terms for killing her 2 children. 8 and 4 years old she hung them from a beam in the basement of her home
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I think the answer lies in your true convictions. If you believe in the death penalty and that it serves as either a deterrent or as justice meted out, you will say yes.
How could any mother hang her own childfren? How could she put them through such a slow, painful, and agonizing death. It's ironic that no states use hanging as a means of execution. It is considered cruel and inhumane treatment.
If you think the death penalty itself is inhumane and barbaric, you'll say no.
Personally, anything short of the same fate and sentence she imposed on her children is a mockery of justice.
Until the 1890s, hanging was the primary method of execution used in the United States. Hanging was still authorized in Delaware and Washington when courts in those states struck down the death penalty, although both had lethal injection as a primary method of execution. The last hanging to take place was January 25, 1996 in Delaware.
