Fatality!

Tuesday December 13, 2005 - 4:20AM EDT

Again I never liked mortal kombat as much as street fighter. With this Stanley Williams execution there is a spat of news articles on the death penalty. Sometimes you just don't know what to do with people who commit the most heinous crimes. Like those really extreme crimes of depravity. Like those kids who lured another kid to the woods and beat him to death with hatchets. That shit is fucked up. Other times you hear about people wrongly executed because of witness testimony. That shit is fucked up too. What I mostly hate about this discussion is those who somehow reason that execution is anything but revenge or a question of effeciency. They call it just. Dude, what the fuck. We have reasoned in a society that revenge is unwarranted except in the case of "justice". That shit is fucked up. I try to put myself in the place of a victims friend or family. All you really want is that person back. You know killing the murderer isn't going to do that. But does it somehow put your mind at ease? If it does, why does it? Is it simply our tradition that tells you that it helps you move on. Do any other animals exhibit behavior like revenge? I don't know. I particulary hate the losers who argue so forcefully that someone deserves to be executed. Usually because they boil it down to justice or some other nonsense and totally skip over revenge. I love me some revenge though.