[OldEagle]

Whether he can do more alive than dead is a given. First, no make that finally, he has to pay the piper.

[RedStateRocker]

I all respect I think the real debate is that it is NOT a given. Putting aside the racialist part of it there is an interesting question underlying can a truly repentant man do more good for society as something else than a corpse?
I honestly think it a valid philosophical question, completely aside form the guy getting the needle. Would some 'straight talk' from turn even one more punk away from the path than just offing him as ans example would?

I am not wise enough to know; and don't really care if he lives. If there are riots then the ONLY appropriate response is, and always has been - one rioter one bullet.