I really hate it when people drag out the Ricky Rectum case as an argument
against lethal injection. Self-lobotomy isn't an absolution, it's the
ultimate irony of an angry black man who couldn't manage to do anything
right and was pissed at the world because of his own inadequacy. He knew
he
was in deep shit, he tried to take the coward's way out, and he couldn't
even do THAT right.
He was a piece of shit, he got flushed like all shit should. There's no
higher ethic or question of morality. If he had been BORN mentally
disabled,
it'd be a different matter, but he wasn't. He damaged his own mind trying
to
escape justice for his crimes. That alone isn't absolution. That isn't
punishment or justice enough. The "but the man who did it died with that
gunshot" argument is specious and ignorant. A man who held no regard for
other peoples' lives is undeserving of regard being shown for his own
life,
when the justice system specifically provides for the permanent removal of
sociopaths from the society upon which they prey.
Whether he was the same man or not is irrelevant--in the eyes of the law,
he
was a cop killer, and cop killers die. P,EOS.
Your arguments about Light's role as a commentary on the death penalty are
spot on, though.
--
"My name is Forrest Gump. People
call me Forrest Gump. I et too many
chaw-klits. Now I gotta take a dump."
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