Originally posted by: ricardo
i honestly think he'd do better if he were alive, committed to his message of nonviolence and anti-gang literature. This will probably sound callous and harsh, but he can do good in death, by showing the people that if you need to suffer the consequences of your actions. No one in this world seems to want to take responsibility for what they do.
I smoked for 40 years. Now I have lung cancer and I'm going to sue the cigarette companies for allowing me to smoke.
I ate McDonalds food daily, now I'm a 500 pound blubber ball. McDonalds is to blame!

Originally posted by: sybeman
That guilt will stay with him.

Interesting, they said on the news today that he showed no remorse.

I have the feeling I'm going to hear from all of you for this:

I am for the death penalty. In fact, I'm for making executions public (don't know exactly how...pay-per-view could help repay the state for the cost of incarceration) and for speeding the processing of death row inmates.

The death penalty should be a deterrant. By putting it behind closed doors and prolonging it by 20-30 years, the public feels detached from the crimes and the person that committed them. I think a lot of people simply don't understand the consequences because they don't see what things are like. Scared Straight had affects on a generation.

'Tookie' here was convicted in 1981, when I was 1 year old, the year Empire Strikes Back came out. It took almost 25 years for this to happen. I had never heard of the guy until recently when they started talking about this execution. Does his death mean anything to me? No, not really.