I have cold blood running through my veins? You think it's acceptable that our government murders innocent people! How callous is THAT!
Answer me this: how many "mistakes" do you feel the government should be allowed to make in capital punishment cases? If your answer is anything more than zero, than you are a willing accomplice to murder! Your government is taking someone's life in the most cruel and premeditated fashion - and you stand by and think "oh well - he prolly had it comin' anyway"? Think for just one second about the countless number of people that were innocent of the crime for which they were being put to death. Look at all the people in Illinois that had their death sentences overturned due to DNA evidence or witness/police corruption. Innocent people being put to death by the government!
Other than in magnitude, is that really different from anything Saddam is doing? How much more terror can one inflict than to tell you you will be put to death on exactly this date by exactly this method, and then you just stare at the clock, waiting for representatives of your government to kill you for something you did not do. And what of the family's there? You feel sorry for the parents of the kids killed at the school - what of the kids of an innocent parent killed by the state! And the sickest thing of all is when enough evidence has come to light beforehand to raise reasonable doubt or even exonerate the victim and still the execution goes on. How much closer to the devil would have to be to stand by and let that happen? Guess you can ask Ann Richards or George W Bush that one!
What is the upside of capital punishment? It costs more than incarceration, it has no impact on reducing crime, it doesn't make the victim's family's feel any better, and the entire process is wrought with racism/favoritism. But you don't care what any studies might reveal, after all ignorance is bliss. Keep pretending that it helps - that way you'll still be able to sleep at night in the capital of state sponsored murder, inc.
O'Reilly is irrelevant. Geraldo Rivera wields more power, and Bill couldn't even carry half of Oprah's girdle.
