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TUBOB: Execute Truly Bad Dudes

Now, my one big exception to not supporting the death penalty is when the killer has done something so heinous, so egregious, so monstrous that he has damaged society by the enormity or evilness of his act. Then I say execute him out of vengeance and for a justice where the punishment fits the crime. Some bugs can be kept in bottles and some bugs need to be squashed/TUBOB. More here.

Question: Has Tubob come up with a good rule of thumb for capital punishment -- execute only those whose crime achieves a level of notoriety that inflames society -- for example, Joseph Edward Duncan? Or will the anti-capital punishment lawyers find problems with this, too?



Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.