Reply #17: Pass, no sale

[ryan_cats]

My wingnut brother sent me the autopsy photos of his victims. They are brutal. He was laughing about the sounds a man he killed made dying.

1) Has he even taken responsibility for the murders?

2) Has he really reformed? Seems he's still running the crips.

3) Woop-d-do, he (or his lawyers) wrote children's books.

4) Who cries for his direct victims? Who cries for the numerous victims of the crips? Who cries for crips member's lives ruined by their violent lifestyle?

Now, I don't like the death penalty. It was used by racist cops and prosecutors to kill innocent minorities among numerous other reasons. If his sentence was commuted to life (where there is no chance of parole unlike Manson), I could go for that, no problem. I think two wrongs don't make a right but let us not kid ourselves. Tookie is a murderous thug, nominating him for a Nobel prize is an abomination. Is he and his 'works' equivalent to the infinite good works of Jimmy Carter? I don't think so and neither were Arafat's. It cheapens the Nobel prize. I am also not impressed with another thug like Snoop Dog, what about the other people on death row, they aren't notorious enough to attract celebrities concern?

Go ahead and spare his life, not because he has reformed, it's obvious he hasn't. Do it because the death penalty is a ghastly thing. Here's a chance for Arnold to, for once in his life, do the right thing. ALL of the people on death row should have their sentences commuted to life.