Death penalty is ‘humane’ for brutes
Recently a column in the newspaper was devoted to abolishing the death penalty. I disagree; my reasons follow:
I heard it costs $78,000 a year to house the average prisoner. Doesn’t society have better things to finance than housing a murderer for life at those costs?
Should society provide murderers with food, clothing and shelter for life, with no responsibilities? I heard that over 50 percent of released prisoners are back in jail within two years. Apparently for them, it beats the hassle of lawful living on the outside.
As for the insistence on a painless execution, murderers seldom consider the pain of being burned to death, etc. Why can’t we just get whatever they use at the dog pound for lethal injection? If it’s humane enough for innocent dogs, why isn’t it humane enough for such brutes?
We have departed from the Bible, 3,500 years of wisdom. Now gays are accepted, and murderers live. How long before the good Lord says, “That’s all,” and lets ISIS or the equivalent take over? It happened several times to the Jews. America is not exempt.