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May 05, 2006
Why people like the death penalty
Michela of MWB is no death penalty supporter; you could even say that she is opposed enough to be labeled an anti-death penalty "activist." We try to reserve that title for shrill idiots such as Mike Farrell, a winner of the elusive MWB Movie Star P-Fer award.
However, my reasons are quite different from the average Farrell-style fools. I just happen to believe that the system is set up to be corrupt enough to send people to the death penalty when completely innocent (The Hurricane was a movie and a true story; and in the South, not uncommon enough). I also think the media parades which mobilize around these murdering idiots give them attention and sympathy they absolutely do not deserve. I find it a much better punishment to let these brutal killers die in oblivion. Would any sucker have bought a Tookie book if he were just another anonymous lifer?
But here's a story, brought to us by www.PardonMyEnglish.com, which shows us that one of the most brutal killers of our time, the BTK killer, has all sorts of priveleges you and I would not have on a daily basis; lounging around in his cell, drawing, reading, watching TV. That's a life me, Michela, wouldn't mind on an average week.
When you see such an injustice, it makes you think, hmm, maybe we should be offing these rats--preferably very slowly on a giant sticky rat trap with poisoned cheese within arms reach. The man was just convicted of torture and murder and within the year he's got a TV in his cell? It makes my anti-death penalty stance hard to stand by, and it's an outrage.
Posted by Michela at May 5, 2006 08:52 AM