Truth.

From James Wolcott...

The death penalty must be abolished. No former movie action hero--or Yale cheerleader with enough psychological baggage to sink the African Queen--should be entrusted with the power of life and death over his fellow citizens. These are essentially frivolous, uninformed men playacting blue-suited roles of grave responsibility.

And why, indeed, do we kill people who kill people to prove that killing people is wrong? A barbaric practice, crudely administered.

Time to stop.