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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (239508)	3/18/2002 8:16:56 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Setting aside for a moment the basic inhumanity of capital punishment, states consider it inhumane to execute a truly insane person who cannot distinguish between right and wrong, or those who may not even understand the execution process. But these considerations haven't really stopped George Bush, or Bill Clinton for that matter. States generally think it's OK to execute those who presumably are truly evil because they possess self-restraint and chose not to exercise it. Yet who in his right mind would commit a capital offense, knowing the consequences? You're right. There is no logic to the law, since Texas would consider someone who truly was unable to restrain themselves from committing a capital offense as insane. I say destroy all the death chambers. It's much more expensive to kill them anyway.