Nov. 10, 2009 - The Death Penalty

John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who kept the Washington region paralyzed by fear for three weeks in 2002 as he and a young accomplice gunned down and killed 10 people at random, has been executed by lethal injection.

I don’t have a strong death penalty position as it relates to the argument that it is a deterrent. I do have a STRONG feeling in how it is delivered.

A more just punishment would have been to set Muhammad free. I would tell him that some time in the next 50 years he may or may not get taken out by a sniper. He may be pumping gas (like some of his victims), he may be shopping at the Home Depot (like some of his other victims), you just never know.

Death row inmates get too many appeals, too many courtesies, and live way too long after their punishment has been determined. We have death row inmates that claim that they are too fat to be injected. We have others that argue that lethal injection is inhumane. REALLY!!!!

Muhammad died a painless death and had time to make peace with it, UNLIKE HIS VICTIMS.

The only words the executioner should say when he is done is, NEXT!!!