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Askville: Capital Punishment
Apparently someone was recently executed for a crime it was then proved they hadn't committed. Someone asked if this would mean the end of capital punishment in the USA.
I suppose this is political, so here's a cut.
No. As long as there's a Texas, there will be capital punishment in the US - and drunk Texans throwing tailgate parties outside the execution grounds while waving mocking signs and dancing to country music.
You know what amazes me? That right-wingers swear that government is incompetent, evil, inefficient, and can't do ANYTHING right. And yet they want it to have the power to kill.
But maybe I shouldn't say anything. They might start throwing teabagging protests to privatize the justice and execution systems! Can you imagine if the courts were run by Enron, Bernie Maddoff, Bank of America, and Lehman Brothers?
...maybe we wouldn't notice a difference. Many of our prisons are pretty much run by corporations as it is! And they make a substantial profit out of them.
I suppose this is political, so here's a cut.
No. As long as there's a Texas, there will be capital punishment in the US - and drunk Texans throwing tailgate parties outside the execution grounds while waving mocking signs and dancing to country music.
You know what amazes me? That right-wingers swear that government is incompetent, evil, inefficient, and can't do ANYTHING right. And yet they want it to have the power to kill.
But maybe I shouldn't say anything. They might start throwing teabagging protests to privatize the justice and execution systems! Can you imagine if the courts were run by Enron, Bernie Maddoff, Bank of America, and Lehman Brothers?
...maybe we wouldn't notice a difference. Many of our prisons are pretty much run by corporations as it is! And they make a substantial profit out of them.