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Death penalty back on the table?

Only the lowest form of life would advocate a penalty imposed by flawed courts that can’t be reversed if it’s later discovered to have been wrongly imposed.

That’s all you need to know for any debate on the death penalty.

It is advocated by such murderous swine as George (Dubya) Bush and his deadly little brother Jeb. While nobody can accuse Dubya of being smart—mitigating perhaps some of his evil—it certainly doesn’t excuse smarter advocates of such legalized murder. The older Bush brother sent over 130 people to their deaths in redneck Texas during his five years as governor. A third of them had been represented by lawyers who were later disbarred or otherwise sanctioned. The law of averages would hold that some innocent people were wrongly killed by Dubya Bush.

The boneheaded creep even mocked a woman he put to death, pursing his lips in imitation and saying, “Please, don’t kill me.”

Brother Jeb in Florida merely killed 17 or so.

In Canada we have a man much smarter than Dubya—and thus more to be dreaded—who wants to bring back the death penalty which, like most civilized nations, Canada has abandoned.

That villain is Steve Harper. He refused to seek clemency for a Canadian on death row in the U.S., which traditionally is done by Canadian prime ministers to support our nation’s revulsion over the death penalty.

As author Arthur Weinreb writes in canadafreepress.com: “At a time when we can see, with a scientific certainty, that some convicted killers could not have done the crime, it is hard to believe that the death penalty will ever make a comeback.”

But Steve and his ideological bedfellows are quite comfortable, it seems, with killing innocent people as collateral damage.