Just a Thought

Whenever the question of the death penalty comes up, even the most liberal of people consider that it might be okay for "the really guilty one's- like Gacy or Bundy..."

Yeah, them guy's that are extra guilty and everybody knows it.

Nope. Guilty as those guy's did prove to be, they are abberations even in the world of scumbag murderers. Not everyone convicted of murder is guilty. They may have had poor legal representation. They may have had vindictive or confused eye-witnesses testifying against them. Or, like the father in Texas- since proved innocent- a bogus "expert" may have testified that they did something heinous only to later have others prove the circumstances to be tragically accidental. You can't give that man his life back. Dozen's of men have been freed in the last decade as the new evidence of DNA cleared them in rapes and murders. Life in prison, falsely convicted of a crime, sucks. Death in prison, falsely convicted of a crime, is irreversible.

The death penalty as it stands now isn't much of a deterrent to murder. People still kill spouses, gang rivals and innocent bystanders despite the possibility of capital punishment. Many people kill and don't even get life sentences. There are convicted murderers alongside us in traffic, at work, in the stores. Evidently they've been rehabilitated. Everyday that they don't kill someone is proof of that...

Despite laws, our prison's are bursting at the seams with criminals. Some people just don't get it and never will. If you've ever seen an episode of MSNBC's "LOCK UP" or The History Channel's "GANGLAND", you'll know this is true. Crime is so lucrative for some people that they don't really mind going to prison because they can still commit- and profit from- crime while locked up. The most notorious criminal organization in this country is the Mexican Mafia. A prison gang. The leaders control things from behind bars.

These people are not innocent, victims of the judicial system. They are career criminals who know and care about nothing else but commiting crime and violence. You cannot talk to them. You cannot hope to rehabilitate them. Their love for crime and the gang is inked permanently in their skin. They would as soon kill you as look at you. They just don't get it and never will. Never.

So, kill them. Take a day, round up the hardest cases in every prison in the land, and put a bullet in the head of every murderous, hard-core, gang-loving slug. Don't do this quietly. Advertise it. Let those on the streets know that there are new vacancies in the prisons. If your desire in life is to be a gang-banging thug, we can change that for you. We are open for you. We care about you. But, if you don't care about "we the people" and you show us this commitment to crime and violence even while we seperate you from society, there's a bullet with your name on it. We'll keep your cot open for the next guy. Maybe he'll get it.

I'm not saying that we need to give up on people. We shouldn't stop trying to educate and rehabilitate those who got off to a bad start in life. We just need to realize that it's necessary to thin the herd a bit, that some just ain't gonna get it, no matter our best intentions. I'm not talking about cutting off a thief's hand. There's no need for such brutality. I'm talking about the un-apologetic scumbags repeatedly found guilty of violent crimes who refuse to see the error of their ways even while incarcerated. Let them be an example for those in society who might think that violence is a good way of living one's life. If you see on the news that tens of thousands of vicious criminals were executed and you STILL want to beat a man for his wallet, well, there's a cot and a second chance for you. It might even be a good second chance with the prison predators out of the way.

Just a thought.