Have I ever mentioned before that only people who believe in the death penalty can truly be considered PRO-LIFE?
I know that it will tick off a lot of people to say that - but I get so tired of hearing the other side that you can only be PRO-LIFE if you are against the death penalty - I felt it was time for balance.
And before you get going on and on about the possibility of injustice being perpetrated on an innocent person - let's just suffice it to say that since the emergence of DNA - the likelihood of that argument holding any water has grown increasingly slim.
However I still need to point out that when I say "death penalty" my frame of reference is this: "When the actual person, who committed the actual crime, actually gets put to death, for doing something so dispicable that society has no other choice."
Wrongful prosecution, tampering with evidence, blah, blah, blah - all of those issues already have laws on the books pertaining to them.
Now the anti-death penalty folks are really stirred up about this new development. Evidently nearly 1 out of every 8 men on death row are now voluntarily giving up their legal appeal process and opting for an early finish to their sentence. The USA Today article seems to make it look like this is a terrible tragedy.
I choose to view it more along the lines of - they know what they did - and the guilt they feel most likely led them to believe that they have to pay the price for the hideous crimes they committed.
Case closed - NEXT...