Death Penalty Insanity
From the blog, Pardon My English
Otherwise known as allowing a bunch of human debris to sit on death row while we wring our hands and whine about how “cruel and unusual” their deaths might be.
The anti-death penalty nuts wildest dreams seem to be coming true in the past few days as all this hype over the killing of killers is coming to a head, mostly in Florida and California.
SAN FRANCISCO — Faced with grim testimony of poorly trained executioners operating in cramped, dimly lit quarters, a federal judge declared California’s execution procedure unconstitutional.
The state’s “implementation of lethal injection is broken, but it can be fixed,” U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled Friday in San Jose, extending a moratorium on executions in the nation’s most populous state.The decision is the latest in a nationwide challenge to lethal injection — the preferred execution method in 37 states — and came as Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions there after a bungled execution this week. Missouri’s injection method, which is similar to California’s, was declared unconstitutional last month by a federal judge.
Fogel said the California case raised the question of whether the three execution drugs administered by the San Quentin State Prison are so painful that they “offend” the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. He said he was compelled “to answer that question in the affirmative.”
The thing that “offends” me and should offend everyone is that we are actually contemplating with a straight face the “pain” that some vile shred of human debris — in most cases a hideous killer — will face. Why should we care about the way these vile pieces of crap die when they take the lives of innocents in the most brutal and despicable ways? To wit:
• Despite his professions of innocence, did Angel Diaz or his accomplices have any thought for the life of the strip club manager they killed in 1979 or the pain his family suffered due to his death? I don’t really care that his accomplice ratted on him and got life for it — as far as I’m concerned he should have fried as well.
• Did Michael Morales, the rapist and murderer whose execution was stayed last February by the same federal judge who ruled California’s death penalty to be unconstitutional last week, care about the terror, pain and agony he inflicted on his 17-year-old victim?
• Did Joseph Edward Duncan care about the terror and agony he inflicted upon little Dylan Groene or the permanent psychological damage his sister Shasta will carry around with her for the rest of her life due to the terror Duncan inflicted upon her? How can we bring back the family this walking piece of garbage took away from this little girl?
• Did John Evander Couey give one thought to the horror, terror, and pain he inflicted upon Jessica Lunsford as he repeatedly raped her and stuffed her in a plastic bag, then stuffed her in a hole to suffocate.
These examples go on and on, making the notion that we should actually care about the manner in which we put these heinous criminals to death – the way in which we mete out the only type of justice possible for these types of crimes – absolutely absurd. It only serves to show the utter insanity of the state of crime and punishment in our society.
DITTO! Could not have said it any better.
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