The sob-sisters are crying for the poor murderers again

According to this story in the Washington Post, we're now supposed to demand an end to executions of America's worst criminals because someone now suspects that they can feel some pain from the drugs being put into their system.

Now we really don't know for sure that the murderers, rapists and torturers being put to death feel pain or discomfort for a minute or two but I have to ask why we should even care? I mean we're not talking about people who didn't return library books here--these are the people who rape and murder kids or beat senior citizens to death with tire irons. Their crimes were heinous enough that twelve Americans on a jury who who heard all the details decided that they had to go.

However this has never sat well with the liberal left, notably the ivory tower academics who sit in campus classrooms and spew their opinions at today's students. It you read the Post story, you'll see that the whining and wingeing is coming from that quarter yet again. The story is built around the claims of three university teachers who have probably never been any closer to a real murder or the families of murder victims than the episodes of Matlock that they watch on Sunday nights. This was also mentioned by Michael Rushford of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a victims' rights group. commenting on the obvious bias and hidden motive of the academics, he said: "These people wouldn't be okay with Ethel Merman singing people to death."

Frankly I don't care if Tim McVeigh felt a few twinges on his way out. I hope that Wesley Cook, aka Mumia Abu Jamal feels plenty when he goes. Neither they nor the other creeps on Death Row ever cared how THEIR victims felt so why are we worrying about whether or not they feel uncomfortable for a few seconds? But this debate never ends. The liberal "keep them alive" movement has fought to make almost every state switch to lethal injection because the electric chair, gas chamber, firing squad and hanging were too barbaric for them and didn't reliably kill quickly enough, and not they're attacking the lethal injections for the same reason. Let's be honest even if they won't--their goal is to end all executions of even the most vicious criminals and since they can't persuade the public that these criminals have any redeeming value to justify keeping them alive, they're attacking the means that we use to execute them,hoping to shut down all executions on a technicality.

Call me a meanie, but I want to go the other way. I want to see the death penalty expanded and given to all first degree murderers, anyone who murders a child or rapes their victim, anyone who kills a police officer, and anyone who commits an act of domestic terrorism. I want it to be uniform, with no chance for a set-aside, and I think that they should be televised or at least open to the public, perhaps with admission charged and snacks sold to defray the costs. Heck, I'd take a vacation day to watch John Allen Muhammed, the Beltway Sniper, swing from the gallows, and I might even make the trip out to California to watch murderer Scott Peterson electrocuted. I'd probably even buy t-shirts if vendors had them available.

But you average folks need to be wary of the liberal head fake here. They don't really care if multiple murderer Antoinette Frank feels like she's suffocating or if the drugs cause poor cop-killing Wesley's skin to tingle as he dies. They want to get you all worked up so that their goal of no more executions ever will be realized.
Mind you, these are often the same people who think that abortion on demand for any reason at any stage during the pregnancy or even the delivery it a woman's right.

Well maybe I can look past that hypocrisy this time. It seems clear that all the liberals need to do is to just start looking at these executions as retroactive abortions and then they should be ok with them.