Life in jail is worse than death if you ask me. There have been countless numbers of convicted murderers sentenced to death who were exonerated after their execution because of modern forensic evidence that showed they could not have committed the crime.
Part of the largest argument for anti-death penalty side is that we have killed a lot of people who didn't do anything wrong. They just simply got stuck holding the bag and looked guilty. Humans aren't perfect, so doesn't it follow that we shouldn't act like we are justified in determining who lives and dies?
And why am I not surprised that halogamer is a strong supporter of the death penalty...I myself am still kind of neutral on the issue, so I don't feel overly strong about the issue one way or the other. If I leaned towards any side it would be anti-death penalty.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
