Letter to the Editor - March 5

Capital Punishment

Is it capital punishment or U.S. Signatory Sociological footprint? America’s death penalties regardless of which state, are in fact varying degrees of torture, including lethal injection, which remains hidden behind the mask of proprietary rights. Though we have many anesthetic drugs and licensed anesthesiologists to administer them appropriately. For that matter simple carbon monoxide poisoning is painless and it is no secret that we have an over abundance of that stuff to the point of perhaps performing capital punishment upon the entire planet. Also, is it not ironic to refer to it as capital punishment, when those among us with the most capital are rarely punished. When was the last time you’ve seen a wealthy person executed?

Plus economic statistics reveal that ongoing appeals processes that follow-up most death sentences are far more expensive then incarceration for life. Perhaps if we adhered to a humane execution process, less convicted would appeal? Also murder is murder, state sponsored or otherwise. It multiplies within our culture like any form of cancer does. You beat your children and they go on to beat their peers and probably their own children as well, generation after generation.

There are many reasons why America has the highest violent crime and incarceration rate in the world and this is just one of them. We are a violent society, we do minimum social rehabilitation and we reek violence upon the symptoms while ignoring the root causes (denial.) We take competitive sports that throughout thousands of years of history have evolved around courtesy, honor, respect and compassion for ones opponent. And we inject into them so much violence that the original version is unrecognizable. We loud our children up with weapon access and video games that are scored by death projected.

And the corporate for profit mainstream media avoids furnishing the peoples commons with worldwide statistics about rehabilitation and or preventative progress being made in many nations, not including the U.S. – and by all means let us not forget the genocide and/or slavery that we employed to acquire these lands and the many family fortunes that still rule our government and/or political commons yet today.

Down with capital punishment for a good change, it’s a start. And lastly but not least, what about the hundreds of people who with newly uncovered evidence have been proven to be innocent, after they were executed?

John F. Middlemiss, Sr.,

Trout Creek,