Death Penalty

I’m with Ramesh on the death penalty. I’m crashing on my syndicated column on this stuff. Here are the first two grafs, they’ll give you a sense of what crapweasel I think Ryan is:

In 1995, Fedell Caffey shot Debra Evans in her home and stabbed her 10 year old daughter. He then cut the full term baby from her womb and, along with her 7 year old son, kidnapped them. The 7-year-old’s body was later found. The child had been tortured. Departing Illinois Governor George Ryan let Caffey off Death Row, because he believes to do otherwise would be, “playing God.”

Lenard Johnson, raped two girls, aged 11 and 13 and sexually assaulted a third, aged 7 while he was baby-sitting them. And, he murdered an 11 year old boy with a knife. He was caught holding the knife to one of the girl’s throats. Johnson never made any claim to being innocent of his crimes. George Ryan felt it was impossible to keep Johnson on death row because the “demon of error” made it impossible to tell who deserved to stay on death row and who didn’t.