‘Texas Does It Slowly’

As the crime rate soars and Californians adopt the sport of shooting one another to death on the freeways, the Los Angeles Times can still crank out whining editorials in opposition to the death penalty, in which a multiple killer got a little extra time to reflect on his sins when the executioners had difficulty locating a vein through which to administer a lethal injection. Somehow, I can’t squeeze out a tear.

With more Americans becoming victims of serious crimes, it is time to extend the death penalty, not abolish it.

For openers, if drug pushers were executed, crime would drop by around 70% in America. Add multiple felons, terrorists and traitors and the statistics would get even healthier.

Since the liberals are squeamish about even lethal injection as a form of execution, let those who commit the most heinous murders give up their lives to science and the general good by becoming the subjects of medical experiments in the place of innocent dogs and cats that have never brought anything but love and companionship to humankind.

In an overpopulated world, with hunger and misery rife, it goes beyond understanding into the realm of bitter irony that a nation should squander wealth and resourses to preserve the lives of the most vicious members of its society at the expense of their victims.

ARTHUR HANSL

Pacific Palisades