The death penalty - you can't make this stuff up
Juan Manuel Alvarez, the mercurially suicidal guy who parked his SUV on the train tracks in Glendale, CA, killing 11 people, was placed on a suicide watch. There is no decision yet about whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
Do we live in a great country or what?
posted by Alec Wysoker at 10:01 AM
3 Comments:
There are some ironies here that would be laughable, except for the terrible consequences.
Perhaps it isn't your highest priority in terms of injustices out there, but IMHO one can still judge its morality regardless of how many people are affected.
Unfortunately, I don't believe that vengeance is a desire that is generally satisfiable. I suspect that people who get a little simply think they deserve more.
Politicians' positions on capital punishment is, IMHO, and indicator of their general attitude toward people. I.e. politicians who support the death penalty tend to believe that the state of the underprivileged is completely their own fault, rather than being partly the fault of a system that rewards the haves and punishes the have-nots. (Talk about flame-bait.)
You're right. We do live in a great country, & we should be more vigorous in exporting our values throughout the world.
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