Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Capital Punishment

At 1 am this morning a man who was involved in a shootout 25 years ago and has been on death row since is finally dead. Finally after 25 years of bickering and arguing the punishment of death that was handed down for the act of killing a police officer in Memphis has been meted out. Why do we do this? If we have the death penalty, why does it take so long to put someone to death? We have a bunch of Doctors now saying they will no longer participate because they "cure people not kill people". Fine, who needs 'em. Oh it will hurt the convicted man if the chemicals are not mixed right. Your point is??? Scott Peterson is awaiting death. Currently he has his own cell, three squares a day, cable tv, internet, books galore, Hell he can even attend college if he really wanted to. What did he do to deserve all this? He brutally murdered his Wife and unborn Son then dumped them in SF Bay like they were trash. Why are we giving this man all this luxury. Sure he is in a cell until they execute him, but until then (which with all of the appeals he's bound to file plus the long line of folks that need to die ahead of him will probably be 20 years from now) he gets all this great crap. Some punishment. I believe you should be allowed 2 appeals, than that's it. If the Docs don't want attend the execution, screw 'em. Have the condemened kneel and put one in the back of his head. You won't need a doctor then to tell you if he's alive or not.

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