Bush is such an arrogant hypocrite. This is the man who as governor of Texas oversaw the execution of 152 human lives. His administration has killed thousands of people in Afghanistan, a number equalling those who were killed in the World Trade Center. As if this weren’t bad enough he has proclaimed January 20th, the National Sanctity of Human Life Day. It’s no coincidence that January 22nd is the 29th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision which decriminalized abortion.
Death penalty quotations:
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“Evidence of innocence is irrelevant.”
—Mary Sue Terry, Attorney General of Virginia, 1986-94 (replying to an appeal to introduce new evidence from a prisoner sentenced to death)
“In my own experience, I know of four persons convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, who were later found to be innocent . . . long after the appellate process had been exhausted.”
—Honorable Harry Fogle,
Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Florida
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
—George Bernard Shaw
An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of life as a concentration camp is from prison. It adds to death a rule, a public premeditation known to the future victim, an organization which is itself a source of moral sufferings more terrible than death. Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
—Albert Camus
Sure, it’s ok to kill multitudes live people, but abortion is wrong, right? Right….