Really?
Despite the question mark at the end of your cleverly convoluted sentence, I'm pretty sure you're not asking anything. But, that's ok. I'll play along.
We kill people who kill people because they have murdered innocents. That is, they intentionally, and with malice, took another person's life, often under heinous circumstances. So, not only have they appointed themselves as judge and executioner over another person's right to live, but they have also permanently and destructively altered the lives of the parents, siblings, children, spouses, extended families and friends of their victims. Not to mention the impact on society of a person prematurely taken out of the order of things.
Do you want known murderers moving about freely in your neighborhood?
But we can just put them in jail for the rest of their lives, right? Because we are compassionate, and capital punishment is "cruel and unusual".
You want to see cruel and unusual, and UNDESERVED punishment? Current overachievers on California's death row, who had no compassion for their victims:
Lawrence Bittaker was convicted in the savage 1979 slayings of five teenage girls, who were plucked off South Bay streets and raped and tortured.
Ricky Madison was convicted of stabbing his mistress 172 times in Hawthorne in 2006.
Randy Eugene Garcia was convicted of breaking into a Torrance house in 1993, tying up a woman, shooting her and attempting to rape her, and killing her husband, Joseph Finzel, when he came home. Their baby slept in a bassinet next to her mother during the crime.
Well, as long murderers are behind bars, they can't harm us.
Right. Because they never escape. Or are paroled by morons who know they will not be held accountable for future crimes committed by the parolees. Or mastermind murders while they are incarcerated.
When California executed Clarence Ray Allen, 76, it wasn't for the 1974 murder he'd arranged, but the 1980 triple killing he instigated from behind bars.
Oh.
But, you go ahead and put that idiotic bumper sticker on your car, right next to the one that tells me you "Coexist", whatever the fuck that means. And go on about your life feeling morally superior because you're obviously more spiritually evolved than I.
I have a question, too. A question for you. Not as witty as yours, I'll admit. But I'll pose it anyway.
Have you ever had to contend with any tragic injustice in your life?
And no, losing a parking spot to an inconsiderate driver doesn't count.
Dimwit.
