There are many here on the left who will argue against the death penalty at length... as a barbaric act... as no better than the sorts of crimes it in theory dissuades people from committing... and I suppose that might all be true.
But when i see stories like these i gotta tell you - in my book the death penalty is too kind. When the founding fathers deciding the act of drawing and quartering was too much - i dont think they envisioned the kind of evil our modern society fosters so well. That a story like this is, to some degree, unremarkable, is one of the reasons i am not as proud of my country as i might be otherwise (I'll let Obama's wife speak to that feeling - just tune in Faux news, i think they have the clip on a loop).
Mississippi - if you have trouble finding someone willing to act the carnifex on this one - i dont think i'd be that squeamish. Give me a call - i'll help you out.
Dude, if you outlaw this kind of behavior, you'll be robbing us of one of the key tools in the war on terror.
ReplyDeleteI had to say it, even though I know its wrong. But, ya know, if these people are sub-human animals but the President says torture is ok (and remember, Khalid Shiekh Mohammed is considered to be mentally incompetent), then we have a major disconnect here.