1000th “Death Penalty” murder since reinstating in 1976
Doesn’t it seem strange to be killing people for killing people? I am aware that there are people that are dangerous enough to never let back into the population, but it seems hypocritical to kill them… Aside from the people who are significant dangers to our society, prisons should generally be cleared out a lot.
We are a nation built on and ruled by fear. That fear has driven us to quadruple (400%) our prisons and prisoners from 1980 to 2000. Violent crime has stayed about the same… (there was a decline every year under Clinton and a rise every year under Bush) We spend a lot of our money, making the prison construction workers rich, providing low paying and high-risk jobs to many, and encarcerating many many others… If you can’t tell, I’m reading a book called “No More Prisons” by William Upski Wimsatt – I highly recommend it.
and on a lighter note….
- It’s my Mom’s Birthday today
- FireFox 1.5 – is available – (article, followup article)
- Possibly really cool TV + Computer systems
- video phones, not new, but maybe soon?
- M$ security package… is that an oxymoron?
Now playing: Death Cab for Cutie – What Sarah Said
You know legalization of some or most illict drugs and regulating them would take a strain off the justice/prison system, which in return would leave plenty of room for the incarceration of murders and other violent criminals w/o the need for executions. Thats my point of view atleast…
Decent online resources:
ACLU
NORML
The Sentencing Project
Prison Policy Initiative
its crazy that our country can train people to be killers and then when they act on their training we kill them.