Countdown for Tookie Williams
While the victim's family wants the death penalty carried out, celebrities and anti-death penalty advocates are asking Schwarzegger for a last-chance reprieve.
Frankly, if you are going to have the death penalty (which has questionable value to society), it seems a bit hypocritical to celebritize murderers to fight individual cases. Arnie might stay up late tonight analyzing the case, but really, doesn't that mean we are making this decision arbitrary and subjective vs. based on the law?
Making a celebrity out of someone who murdered four people really turns most peoples' stomachs. Instead, the argument should simply be the death penalty itself has not served society in any meaningful way, there is evidence it cannot be dispensed fairly and accurately, and we do we want to be the only civilized society that advocates it?
Frankly, if you are going to have the death penalty (which has questionable value to society), it seems a bit hypocritical to celebritize murderers to fight individual cases. Arnie might stay up late tonight analyzing the case, but really, doesn't that mean we are making this decision arbitrary and subjective vs. based on the law?
Making a celebrity out of someone who murdered four people really turns most peoples' stomachs. Instead, the argument should simply be the death penalty itself has not served society in any meaningful way, there is evidence it cannot be dispensed fairly and accurately, and we do we want to be the only civilized society that advocates it?
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