11? heh, we can do that in a week

[sereneorange]

California
Executes Convicted Killer

By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated
Press Writer

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - Prison officials executed a three-time murderer early Wednesday,
making him the 11th inmate put to death in California since capital
punishment was reinstated in 1977.

11 since '77? I checked on Texas. Here in Bush country, they
really cotton to execution. Like a duck to water. It is something in the
water.

I looked up the execution
stats for Texas. We have done 337 since 1982. Beat that with your
11...hmph.

Honestly I am
conflicted. While I do not agree with the death penalty, I never feel
sympathy for the men and women on death row, unless it is apparent that
they may be innocent. Carla Fay Tucker just pissed me off. Maybe it was
more the reaction of everyone to her in particular.I felt that she was
undeserving of all the sympathy and attention she recieved. She murdered
two people in a most heinous way. She claimed to find Jesus and wanted to
be spared to continue her work of spreading the word of god. I figure
since she was so close to him now and her life pretty much blows being as
she is in prison, one would think she would be in a hurry to meet him.

Almost everyone gets jailhouse
religion. It means nothing.

Comments

[antigone-ks.livejournal.com]

I don't support the death penalty, full stop. However, it amuses me to see the way that people get their shorts in a knot over executing christians. They don't think it's immoral for the government to kill anyone, they just think it's immoral for the government to kill people like them. They certainly wouldn't picket for people who've "found Buddha" or "found Oya," would they?

Fucking bigots.

[vuurvasthouden.livejournal.com]

Meh, I just wish we could bump Scott Peterson up the line. >____>.

[vonotny.livejournal.com]

The question is not about justice or injustice, it's about humanity. If you kill a murderer, you're no better than them. And nobody deserves it to get his life taken away, no matter what he did to others. And there is still something like human rights ...

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

"And there is still something like human rights ..."

oh...not here in the US there isn't. Did you forget I was American?

[vonotny.livejournal.com]

That's why I mentioned them :-)