[goldstategop]

The murderer-loving crowd doesn't believe in human rights. I mean the human rights of the victims of murderers to live. No wonder as Dennis Prager points out forcefully, the death penalty opponents have much to answer for. They have the blood of innocent victims on their conscience. In contrast, I can't think of a single innocent person who was put to death as a result of miscarriage of justice in this country. When it comes to executing murderers justice delaying is justice denied and the last thing on earth we need are high-minded moral lectures from Amnesty International and celebrity activists on sparing the likes of Clarence Ray Allen and Stanley "Tookie" Williams from their decreed fate. Moral clarity requires supporting justice and that means putting to death promptly any one who takes an innocent human life.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[doug from upland]

Another brilliant piece by Dennis.

[little jeremiah]

100% for sure tomorrow pingout.

[garylmoore]

I say "fry em"

[garylmoore]

I say "fry em"

[Jaysun]

No one has the moral authority to forgive murderers except for those who were murdered (which are, of course, already dead). If a crime is abhorrent enough to warrant the death penalty so be it. The purpose is always punishment. Never mind whether or not the death penalty serves as a deterrent for other murderers, at least one of them is disposed of.

[rom]

I have a hard time listening to Prager's show on the Radio, but I love reading his columns and the content of some of his shows. He's dead on in this piece.

[chae]

I totally agree with everything that Prager said here. I know a guy on death row here in MO. I was also friends with the mother of the 12 year old girl he raped and murdered. My only problem is that I feel our methods of execution are too humane for these pieces of garbage.

[rdb3]

Comparing the Left and Right on the subjects of the death penalty and abortion, we have a true Yin/Yang example.

Black is white, up is down, water is dry, heat is cold, freedom is slavery, if you're a Leftist.

[Daaave]

"In due course, Jack Henry Abbott won parole, thanks to Mr. Mailer, who instructed the Utah Board of Corrections in Abbott's talent and literary promise, as did an editor from Random House. Released to a halfway house in June 1981, Abbott was surrounded by influential admirers, guest of honor at celebratory dinners, subject of stories in People magazine, and "Good Morning America."

"Roughly a month later, it all came to an end, along with the life of 22-year-old actor and writer Richard Adan. The newly married manager of his father-in-law's Manhattan restaurant had made the mistake of telling Abbott that the washroom was for the staff and not for customers. The thinker obsessed with a vision of more elevated human relations proceeded to knife Adan to death in an argument over a toilet. Adan was left to die on the sidewalk."

opinionjournal.com/

Another article about the Adan murder here.

[Carry_Okie]

IMHO, the left really doesn't give a hang about the lives of these prisoners. What they want is to release the monsters so that a defenseless public keeps begging for more violations of Constitutional protections and more police protection.

[Alkhin]

Law enforcement officers are ticked off too.

Here

[gracie1]

This case is THE prime example of the need for the death penalty.

A few years ago, while taking courses to complete my degree, I took a writing class that was composed entirely of recent high school graduates. I was the only one who had a little of what you might call "life experience". Our reading and writing assignments were all based on numerous controversial topics. When we got to the death penalty topic, the class discussion started to focus on how life imprisonment would accomplish the same goals.

That's when I pulled out the Allen case.

No one in the class was old enough to remember it and the instructor didn't live in the area at the time. But I have peers who knew the victims, were family to the victims and remember the whole mess vividly, as it was extremely sensational at the time.

I think I may have persuaded a few

[trisham]

Excellent article. Thanks.

[stocksthatgoup]

Prager is one of the clearest thinkers of our time.