Iowa lawmaker calls for death penalty, chemical castration

Quad-City Times ^ | January 25, 2013 | Mike Wiser

[EternalVigilance]

DES MOINES — A state senator will push for public hearings on the death penalty in the Iowa Senate and House of Representatives as he files legislation to bring capital punishment back to Iowa.

Sen. Kent Sorenson, R-Milo, has championed the idea of reintroducing the death penalty in Iowa since the abduction and killing of Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook, 10, this summer in Evansdale.

Elizabeth’s parents joined Sorenson and parents of other missing and murdered children at a Capitol news conference, where the senator outlined five pieces of legislation he plans to introduce this session. Iowa abolished the death penalty in 1965.

There’s little chance of the death penalty returning this session, either, since Senate Judiciary Chairman Robb Hogg, D-Iowa City, said the bill won’t make it through his committee.

“Just saying that it’s not open for debate, that’s not how this country was set up,” said Drew Collins, Elizabeth’s father.

Struggling to find the words, Drew tensed as he spoke.

“As a parent of a murdered child, it makes me sick that it’s not even open to debate,” he said. “One person holding us hostage is unfair, and it victimizes us one more time.”

[Venturer]

I think I would rather be dead than a living Zombie.

[Dudoight]

“I think I would rather be dead than a living Zombie.”

Me too...but would a narcissistic sociopath feel the same way? Death or zombie existence...he/she might wish for anything rather than death.