Personally, I would rather see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be incarcerated for the rest of his life in prison with no possibility of release than be put to death. It has nothing to do with my personal viewpoint of the death penalty, but more to do with his stated desire to be thought of as a martyr. I assume if he was put in prison he would have to be removed from the general prison population for his own protection. I've watched enough of Orange is the new Black to see what happens to unpopular inmates. So, for old Dzhokhar to have to be sitting on his butt in an 8' x 8' concrete block cell with only his metal bunk and stainless steel toilet as friends contemplating his navel for the rest of his natural life seems right to me. Killing him in 20 years from now (after all his appeals have exhausted) by lethal injection, electrocution, firing squad, hanging, or whatever, so he can make a final statement about the brutality of our infidel nation and glorifying his actions and ascendency to martyrdom . . . Nah, don't give him a chance. Let this dude rot in solitary confinement 'till he dies.

Just Fred wrote:

Rongone nailed it again.  He seems to be on a roll lately.

Anyhow, I oppose the death penalty, and I would ask Mr. Starnes this:  Suppose there are 100 people on death row.  99 of of them are guilty, but 1 of them is innocent, but you don't know which one that is.  Do you execute some of them, all of them, or none of them?

I think that, in the case of Todd Starnes, we need to back up a few steps.
Todd, could you please respect someone's opposition to the death penalty and disagree with them without calling them "imbeciles", or slapping the "left winger" label on them?
Then we could debate the topic like reasonable people.

Big talk from a little man.

Mr. Potato Head . . . . Errr, I mean, Todd Starnes . . . . Makes his living as a professional provocateur. That's what he does. That's what he's always done. Reasonable thinking has no place in his encyclopedic misinformation campaign. He has been fired for his ridiculous pundantry that twisted or had a complete disregard for factual information. He has found a home with Fox, a broadcast outlet that glorifies outrage under the guise of "patriotism". If Todd truly sees "a clear and present danger" here or elsewhere in the world, I suggest he leaves the security of his radio/TV/blogspace and personally confronts the danger he sees.

But, I doubt that he has the courage to do so.

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