Convicted mass murderer Timothy McVeigh, currently on a self-imposed fast track to execution, committed an act that, I think, warrants the death penalty. He did not rob a store or rape a child. He did not even kill one, two or three people. Rather, McVeigh killed 168 people and simply cannot face the same consequence as common criminals. Society demands that Mr. McVeigh die for his actions other nations may not agree, but then they did not experience the Oklahoma City bombing.
Government has a popular mandate to kill.
I just want him off this Earth. I just want him away from here so he can go to God and let God deal with it. Death penalty abolitionists should, rather than simply criticize the status quo, make an effort to understand and change the society that has produced those who the rest of us feel must be eliminated. Just as society should use more of the money used to build prisons to renovate our failing public education system, prudence also dictates that we spend less time criticizing the consequence and more time examining the action. If more blacks than whites are being convicted of crimes and therefore executed, let us examine why.