Death Penalty

The awesome Governor Quinn of Illinois has just banned the death penalty.

To make it simple, I am anti-death penalty because 1. Nobody should have the right to play God 2. The system is flawed. The majority of people on death row are not white. The people who commit death-penalty worthy crimes are split 50-50 between white and not white. 10% of death-penalty worthy crimes are committed by women. Women make up less than 1% of death row. Shall I keep going? 3. Innocent people/those who never should have been on death row in the first place have been executed. And yes, I am looking at you, Texas.

That is not to say some people do not deserve to die. Charles Manson. Sirhan Sirhan. Those people. The system is flawed, because they cannot be executed, but a mentally retarded man can be. That's just wrong.

Anyway, prison takes care of its own. Jeffrey Dahlmer did not get death penalty, but it's not like he is alive anymore.

Good job, Illinois.