News Item:OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.
Here in California, thankfully, capital punishment has also been suspended. Yes, I know that the murderous criminals who deserve death are now not going to die, but deserving death and actually being killed by the state are two different things. We do not improve the murderer by murdering him or her ourselves. We participate in a culture of violence. We remove any chance for redemption.
But the reason they give for not executing murderers is absurd: It might hurt! Do you think dismembering a baby doesn't hurt? The same government that is too kind hearted to stick a needle into a convicted murderer thinks nothing of tearing the arms and legs off, one piece at a time, of an unborn baby.
Hypocrites.
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