Y’know, I’m pretty sure I understand the ‘liberal’ point of view concerning the death penalty. Putting someone to death is an irreversible process and if you make a mistake, there is no correcting it. There is no way around it, you simply cannot apologize to a corpse.
That said, there is no excuse for not executing some people. Certainly not cost. The concept of unlimited appeals, costing millions of dollars and taking years to arrive at justice is solely for the benefit of trial lawyers and the support system that has grown around them. The outrageous cost of pursuing the death penalty is to the benefit of the bureaucracy that has taken on a life of it’s own.
This bureaucracy has fostered the idea that the taking of a human life in retaliation for and as a deterrent to the act of having committed an horrendous crime, ie., murder, rape, etcetera, is somehow barbaric and archaic. It seems to me that what the bureaucracy is really concerned with is keeping their own jobs. Rather like a welfare worker that actively encourages people to stay on welfare in order to secure their own job.
There is, I believe, a corollary among all entrenched bureaucracies wherein they take on a life of their own, existing not for the benefit of their original purpose but more selfishly as a haven for opportunists to function, as for example, the bloated bureaucracy of our government.
It is difficult if not impossible, to kill a bureaucracy. Like the proverbial snake, it simply grows another head. Like Robespierre who fell victim to his own guillotine, his bureaucracy lives on.
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