The death penalty has no teeth anyway, since there is no statistical evidence that instituting it lowers the murder rate.
Yes, yes, I know that a dead person doesn't kill again. And a dead innocent one doesn't love again. And there's so much more to say on this topic, but it's all in the archives, and is going to stay there, I suspect. I read recently that there is a conservative movement against the death penalty. I think in the NYT News of the Week in Review. It mentioned Pat Robertson and George Will as new opponents of the death penalty, and that the State of Illinois (? i think) has a moratorium on executions because of discomfiture with the numbers of innocent people executed or on death row. (DNA has exonerated a number of death row inmates. All the dead ones who would have been exonerated by DNA we won't ever hear about, naturally.)
But I mentioned that about Bush and the born again woman because I figure it's one thing to execute... but it's another, or says another thing about you, that you ridicule and mimic the pleas of the condemned. It says, at best, that you're a callow s**thead.
I am glad she found Jesus. It undoubtedly both made her sorry for what she did and gave her courage in the face of death. I am also cynical about jail conversions. Many Christians believed she was a sincere repentant, though, and rehabilitated.
Perhaps she had earned, if not life, not to be mocked and mimicked at the end?
Death is hard, and comes to us all, and perhaps should be treated with some solemnity and respect? Is that asking too much of an adult? |
