“The Los Angeles Times reporter notes that, unlike many of his newspapers’ readers, he opposes capital punishment: “A government execution of anyone — even a brutal murderer — is an immoral, barbaric act, no matter how you do it.”
LA Times boy, Toobin, et al, wish to force their arbitrary moral values on an overwhelming majority who value victims over criminals, and see no practical benefit in warehousing monsters. Those who disagree with them are “barbarians”, not smart enough to have the right opinion, thus no right to even have one. So much for “tolerance”.
Lethal injection is a left-wing scam designed to discredit capital punishment; the Constitution does not require painless euthanasia, just not making a sadistic spectacle of it. To me, perfunctory hanging with a long drop and weights on the feet is the appropriate method. There is certainly no glory in it and nothing to romanticize. Three or four sober witnesses only (perhaps 1 law enforcement official, 1 judge, 1 each family representatives of the victim and the criminal); no audiences and hoopla.
Scrutinize the photo at the top of this post. Why is there a huge microphone placed strategically above the gurney? Is it so no dying gasps go unexploited?