Average time on death row is what? 15 years? 20 years? Too Damn long. Justice should be blind and swift. But the biggest reason is, I could not drop the trapdoor, trigger the guillotine or start the drip. Too cold blooded. I just do not think I could live with my self after wards.
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I could. and you are correct, justice should be swift.
I surprised my self when I said that I could. I guess there are hard things that people need to do in a just society.
The long waits are the result of endless foot dragging by the legal system and numerous appeals. These are also deliberately used by death penalty opponents. They create the delays and then bemoan the practice because of the delays they create. This has gone on since the Warren years. It isn’t new.
Again, no one against the death penalty cares a hoot about the victims, just the damn murderers, who in my opinion forfeit their rights to breathe.
” I guess there are hard things that people need to do in a just society.”
I guess, I am just a wussy.