Well, the ignorance never ceases; nor does the tendency to extract the last pound of flesh from someone we think is guilty. The operative word is we "think." We are not 100% sure, but we "think."

My backward state, Oklahoma, was having problems procuring the chemicals needed to carry out the death penalty by lethal injection. It seems the European countries that have the chemical have refused to sell them to any state wanting to carry out the death penalty. I wonder why?

Not to be deterred, when they can murder a citizen instead of just giving him life without parole, Oklahoma now wants to bring back the gas chamber.

Yes, the gas chamber.

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The blood thirsty people in this state will do what it takes to carry out their precious death penalty regardless of any thought to the sanctity of life.

Vengeance knows no bounds.

The death penalty in the country needs to be abolished.

This post is not particularly about any single inmate who may or may not be a particularly evil person, but it is about the death penalty in general.

Now before someone sees this and says, "He deserved to die," or "He killed someone, so we will kill him," or "This is what the death penalty is for," let me remind you that I am a man who was falsely accused and in prison for almost a decade. So I am not quite sure "who" deserves "what" in this imperfect system we call the criminal justice system.

I also have a friend who was within five days of being executed who was later exonerated by the Innocence Project with DNA evidence. It was just a stroke of luck that his DNA was tested and he was freed.

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What if we had killed---no, murdered---this man, Ron Williamson???

Who would be responsible for his murder? The executioners themselves? The DA? The jury who found him guilty and gave him the ultimate punishment?

We are pretty big on "an eye for an eye" in this country, so someone must die. Right? Who would be the proper person to die if Mr. Williamson had been executed? I would like someone to tell me because I don't know.

Or could it be that everyone who supports the death penalty would have blood on their hands if the condemned man was innocent? Could it be the politicians that use the death penalty in their "hard on crime" mantra to keep getting re-elected year after year are the problem here?

Could it be the citizens of this country that have never had the courage to step up and say "no more death penalty?"

I would like to open a discussion about this and I wish someone out there would answer the questions I just posed? Who would be responsible for the death of an innocent man executed?

Tell me.

Do we say, "Oops, we are sorry," or "That is the price we pay for justice in our criminal justice system," or "We thought for sure he was guilty."

Folks, let me tell you-----The criminal justice system ALWAYS thinks the defendant is guilty.

The chance of executing an innocent man---and there are thousands of innocent men in prison, trust me---is too great when we can just as easily sentence him to life without parole.

Is our insatiable lust for revenge so deep that we have to continue with this barbaric act? Has the death penalty turned us all into killers and monsters?

America is really good at killing people; in fact, that is about the only thing we are really good at these days.

America should be better than this. Let's get rid of the death penalty once and for all.

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