DEATH PENALTY: The bottom line

For those who have an aversion to capital punishment, may I offer a suggestion or two. If you were willing to sacrifice a portion of your own financial assets along with like-minded individuals, perhaps you could petition your state legislators to relieve residents of the financial burden of feeding, clothing and housing a convicted individual for the rest of his/her natural life.

Should your “compassionate cooperative” find itself short of either funds or “compassion,” then the state would quickly re-impose the original death sentence. This procedure would satisfy worldly justice, relieve most of your fellow citizens of undue financial burden, and eliminate those individuals from your “compassionate cooperative” whose principles are based on emotion and not divine wisdom.

Oh, by the way, you’d also be required to support the likes of Joseph Duncan for the rest of their natural lives. Any takers?

RAY GODDARD

Emida