[Eric in the Ozarks]

$14 million is not enough.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I guess this makes me, too, one of those conservatives who can support the death penalty "in theory, but not in practice."

As long as you have unscrupulous prosecutors, lazy police, corrupt judges -- and I'm not impugning these professions per se--- I'm saying as long as you have human weakness and failure, you'll have cases like this, and innocent men and women who die at the hands of the State.

This case didn't involve the present political Administration. But, for the near future, when the State is corrupt from the top, with politically-vetted people at every level -- the Obamunist state --- it's even worse. I would not put the power of life and death into their hands.

[zeugma]

it would be enough if the actual people responsible for this travesty had to pay it, but that’s not going to happen. It’s just another shaft of the taxpayer. Unfortunately, the taxpayer doesn’t demand accountability, so they get to foot the bill. if I had my way, a heck of a lot of the protections against liability would be removed from “civil servants”.

[Quix]

INDEED. HIDEOUS.