JUDICIAL EXECUTION OF CONVICTED FELONS
5 February 2014

I'm not against capital punishment for heinous criminals and murderers.  On the other hand, executing someone after 10 or 20 years in prison is barbaric.  

In one sense, the Chinese are not too far off the mark here.  They convict someone.  They take them out back.  They shoot them in the head.  The end. 

Here in the U.S., where we damn other countries for human rights violations, we convict someone and then...

• We keep them in prison for many years at huge taxpayer expense.
• We let them reform and find religion.
• We let them dedicate their lives to helping other felons 
• We encourage them to find aspiration, education and purpose
• We let them hope and pray for life
• We tell them all appeals have failed and we are going to kill them.

 And then, we give them another few months to think about this after which we dramatically lead them to horror-movie rooms where they are either slowly electrocuted or to strapped to tables surrounded by poison-containing machines.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment?  The Chinese may occasionally execute the innocent and harvest the organs, but at least they do it without 20 years of psychological torture.