If you’re going to do it at all then, dammit, do it!

Florida Legislators Pass Bill To Speed Up Death Penalty, Saying, ‘This Is Not About Guilt Or Innocence’

If 25% of the people sentenced to death are later exonerated why isn’t anybody looking at the population of prisoners not sentenced to death?

The percentage of innocents wrongly punished is probably higher.

And the number of convicts sentenced to prison and not death far, far exceeds the miniscule number sent to die.

Why is nobody raising a stink about the need to tighten up on the legal process to diminish wrongful convictions?

Why the exclusive focus on the death penalty, though it is arguably not worse than and not even as bad as a long life in prison, less likely to be wrongful, and affects only a tiny percentage of all convicts?

Because liberals long ago adopted the moral conviction that the death penalty is wrong and all their criticisms are about stopping it, delaying it, or obstructing it.

Much as their gun control legislation is about stopping gun ownership.

And much as obstructive conservative legislation is aimed at stopping abortions.

Put another way, liberals really don’t care about how high the rate of wrongful conviction is.

That's not what's eating them.

By the way, it is sometimes argued against the death penalty that, once carried out, it cannot be undone if the convict is later exonerated.

But the same is true for all punishments.

Of course, if someone is sentenced to a term of years in prison and he is exonerated when some part of his punishment has not been completed that part can be remitted.

But it remains true that time already served cannot be undone.

Any punishment of any kind or duration that has already been carried out cannot be undone.

There is nothing unique about the death penalty in that regard.

If no punishment is to be allowed that cannot be undone no one will ever serve his first hour in jail.

Pshaw.

PS.

Here, Nicole Flatow is arguing execution ought to be delayed, apparently indefinitely, since after any finite delay it is always possible the had there been more time the man executed would have been cleared.

She does not say why this is a good reason to delay execution but not imprisonment, or even a term of community service.