It's in the news, I felt I needed an opinion. I'm against it, probably not a huge surprise there.
Rather than some moral or ethical issue, my problem stems from dinner. Imagine dinner parties when asked what did you do today and our hero says "i hung/electrocuted/lethally injected xxx" kinda makes the partners response of 'had coffee with steve, lunch with the CEO, and a beer afterwork' kinda lame.
So in the interests of dinner, I say no to the death penalty.
4 comments:
Freak dinner parties indeed and i dont have a real problem with hanging mass murders although my karma button glows a bit when I think about it - which suggests that im a fence sitter on this topic re normal single killing murders - how does one make that distinction?
S.
How come the death penalty has surfaced?
Here's a funny thing by the way. Keep in mind that I am in principal opposed to the death penalty. But as I'm getting older, my general growing preference for apparently simple solutions makes the death penalty all the more attractive. Sometimes it just seems like the sensible option, because it *seems* very simple. It's not of course, but my mind gets tugged in that direction.
Which, as a former criminology major, is quite a scary thing to me!
Mr Salmond:
a) Saddam
b) shall I start calling you George now?
b xxx
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