DEATH SENTENCE FOR DEATH PENALTY

DEATH SENTENCE FOR DEATH PENALTY

California did something amazing this last week. We did away, for the most part, with the whole lethal injection death penalty. Honestly, I feel like the whole "Eye for an eye" nonsense just doesn't fly. Considering most homicide cases remain cold cases and unsolved, the amount you save from the pointless death penalty

I'm not some pro lifer because, generally speaking, pro-lifers are the ones who scream to high hell that the person who committed a crime of killing someone and is on deathrow should die. Which seems like the complete opposite of what someone who is pro-life would do, but yet here we are.

In any case, I do think that the death penalty is a waste of fucking time because life in prison for the crime of murder seems just about equal and "just". more than anything else, It's not that we're ridding someone who murdered off the planet so much as we're doing the same act they did and calling it justified which seems like horse shit. The thing to remember is that we should be better than that. We should be more humane than that.

On top of everything else, as I briefly mentioned, the act of getting to the lethal injection or electric chair is filled with appeals and paper work that on average, it's millions of dollars spent to kill someone who is already rotting away in a prison for the crimes they committed. To me, that's a lot worse of a punishment than putting them out of their misery in the dumbest way possible.

We still rub alcohol on the spot that the lethal injection will go in. Man, thank god, we sure wouldn't want him to get an infection from the needle or anything. Then you have the situation that those chemicals have had their own issues in fully working. It's a complete waste of time when you already have sentenced the man to live the rest of his natural life in a small prison.

So I'm glad that we're doing away with it. There's about 740 folks who currently are in line to die. Just imagine all the appeals court time being wasted on that shit. How many tax dollars are we blowing just to get them through that line and jam a needle into them. It's far far far FAR cheaper to just feed them 3 "meals" and keep them alive. I mean, if that's what we are doing with prisons in general and not bothering with reforming them, then lets just do it that way.

The justice you think the family and loved ones of those who the killer killed is not going to be felt even with the death. You're not bringing anyone back. you're not doing anything than perpetuating a system of killing someone and we need to be better than that. You shouldn't have to scare folks from killing one another with the threat of death.

In any case, that's my words. I'm anti-death penalty as it doesn't do anything productive to bring back those lost and it cost our already fucked up system too much money.