http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?currentPage=1 is a very unpleasant read. towards the end, i actually started to hope that he would be executed so that he might be the grounds for the end of executions. but that makes one shiver. texas is a monstrous place. how they called the electric chair sparky is beyond me. when did texas get to be that single state really stoked on killing people?
the state has no right to punish people. jail is to rehabilitate people, to reform them. and if they're unchangeable bad people, then the state has the responsibility to protect other people from them. though even then, recidivism is bankrupt as an indicator of inveterate criminality. given how ex cons are typically thrust out into the world with CONVICT branded on their foreheads and told to do something other than return to what got them in prison, it's little wonder when that's what they do. on that note, if this isn't a medieval, evil country and jail is about rehabilitating someone and not punishing them, it should be illegal to ask on job applications if someone's been convicted of a crime. if they've been convicted and served their sentence then THEY SERVED THE SENTENCE and shouldn't have life be made more difficult for them beyond the prescribed rehabilitation. otherwise, it's extra punishment (and one wont to lead people back to jail because they can't assimilate back into normal life). we say "justice has been served" when someone gets sentenced, it should then be served, and end when the justice of the court says it should end.
and capital punishment is punishment, it makes no bones about it. it's barbaric and it should never happen again.
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