One VERY indecent proposal--this is nasty, but I really feel this way

[DFW]

I have read about the impending execution of Troy Davis
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Supporters_seek_11th_hour_reprieve__07162007.html

and am just sickened. I don't know if he is guilty or not, but there sure
seems to me to be reasonable doubt, and they're just going to kill him
anyway--easier than not doing it, right? When he's dead, what's left to
argue about?

Here is my indecent proposal:

I hereby propose to enact into law the following:

Should it ever come to light that an innocent person, or a person where
reasonable doubt still persists of their guilt, has been executed by
the state (or any state), that the prosecuting attorney (if evidence to
exonerate was suppressed, or not allowed into evidence), the judge passing
sentence, the Governor of the State at the time (if in a position to grant
clemency and did not), prison officials carrying out the execution, and any
Supreme Court Judges who voted for death--that ALL of the above suffer the same
fate as the executed person. Execution in the same manner, no appeal, no
clemency, just death, swift and sure, China style. You made a mistake?
Sorry, Charlie. The guy you had killed isn't in a position to accept your
apology. So we're sending you to a place where maybe you can offer it.

Harsh, huh? It might even get some innocent honest officials with their heads
in the guillotine. But maybe not. Maybe it would put one swift and immediate
end to the execution of innocent (or even possibly innocent) people in our
country, and as this is the real goal of my rather drastic proposal, that
is why I am for the shock treatment. Putting an innocent person, even one,
to death in a state-sponsored institutional ritual killing is so abhorrent
to me that I want it to be a phenomenon that is never again associated with
my country. I don't care HOW many guilty monsters get life because of it.
If we can spend a trillion dollars on a useless invasion, we can spend a few
hundred million on updating our law enforcement and corrections system.

Preferably no more executions, period, but NO MORE executions where there
is a doubt of the condemned's innocence. NONE. This must stop. If it means
threatening accomplices who don't realize they are accomplices, well so be it.

I have HAD it with rationalizations. Pass a death sentence, uphold it, or
carry it out, and it turns out to have been wrong, then die, yourself, or
else refuse to be a part of the circus.