Bleeding hearts congratulated me. Some of the manliest mail came from women. So much righteous clarity put me off balance. I have a few ideas. They involve contracting out the bad guys, putting monsters to practical tasks, earning money that might go to the families of their victims, thereby presumably satisfying everyone.
Capital punishment is wasteful.
Let's use everything but the squeal. This has huge cable television possibilities, taking wrestling to a new level, where entertainment and judicial spectacle would merge. In any case, prime-time gladiator shows would ensure dramatic balance, the blood of the crime answered by the blood of the arena. The fact that so many U.N. peacekeepers have been taken hostage in Sierra Leone points up the need. They could have settled Kosovo in a couple of weeks.