There’s a news story about a Tennessee man who confessed to killing Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins 21 years ago,  He confessed, but for the past two years he’s claimed he is innocent and that DNA tests will exonerate him.

According to one report, he repeatedly raped the young woman with a wooden pole and then impaled her on it.  While he’s been in prison with three meals a day, a warm bed and an opportunity to live for the past 21 years, his victim has been dead - after experiencing a brutal and heartless death at his hands.  He is challenging his death sentence by saying that execution by lethal injection is not humane.  Hmmm.  Some people have an endless supply of audacity.  So predictable that now he is suddenly concerned about humane treatment.  Maybe someone should impale HIM on a wooden pole and let him see what inhumane really is.

And now it seems that the governor of Tennessee has given him a reprieve - to allow time for DNA tests.  I guess after 21 year, another few weeks won’t make any difference. 

And in a related news story, we read about two gang members scheduled for execution in Texas who are appealing their execution on the grounds that lethal injection is cruel and inhumane.

Their victims were two teenage girls who had taken a shortcut while trying to get home from a friend’s house and happened upon this group of teen-aged beer-drinking gang members who had been initiating a new member into their gang. They gang-raped the girls for more than an hour, and then kicked and beat them before strangling them to death.  Again, I think we can forego the lethal injection and let them experience being gang-raped, kicked, beaten and strangled to death. 

There will be those who say that we should not kill in order to teach people not to kill.  No, the purpose of the death penalty is not to teach people not to kill.  Maybe if the death penalty were actually used effectively, there would be a few killers who would be afraid to commit murder.  However, we have the death penalty so that scum such as those are no longer taking up oxygen and space on earth.  

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