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Drooling on the Pillow

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Roper v. Simmons 

In a letter to the Times today regarding Roper v. Simmons, Roslyn Muraskin, a professor ofcriminal justice at Long Island University says:
If capital punishment is the correct way, why is the
United States one of the only two developed countries
that routinely use it?
I dunno, Professor, maybe 'cause the rest of the world is, you know, wrong. This is an 'appeal to authority' argument for which the authority appealed to is no sort of authority at all. We needn't take any lessons in morality or civil rule from the bloody regimes of Europe simply because they've decided to pull their skirts in recently in a way that appeals to an educated elite in this country. Capital punishment stands or falls on its own merits irrespective of what some Gauloise smoking, Pomacea haustrum eating, Jerry Lewis loving nitwit thinks.

Wade Stone wades in with:

While I rejoice at the Supreme Court ruling and that
our country has finally embraced a semblence of reason
in the matter of the death penalty, I'm disgusted that
we've essentially required guidance from the rest of the
world in its entirety to show us the path away from cruelty.

Other letters waste no time in asking the Supreme Court to climb on that slippery slope and ban all capital punishment.

I think these folk need to take a lot closer look at the societies they want us to evolve into before they ask the rest of us to embrace their version of reason.
Posted by: Sluggo / 7:46 PM
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