The Virginian-Pilot editorial board has suddenly found spending it doesn’t like. It wants more taxes for more roads, it wants more taxes for colleges and universities, and I’m sure it would absolutely love to reimpose the full car tax.
But when it comes to executing murderers, the Pilot suddenly thinks government is too big and it spends too much!
“Doing away with the option of a death sentence makes sense on several levels,” says the Virginian-Pilot.
Actually, doing away with the Virginian-Pilot makes sense on a lot more levels.
“When prosecutors decide not to pursue a punishment of death, defendants are more likely to plead guilty,” argues the Pilot.
Wait a minute! I thought all those people executed were innocent. Isn’t that what the moratorium folks say? These were folks railroaded by a biased system, right? Now the Pilot wants them to plead guilty.
“For what it costs to execute one person – in North Carolina, the most recent estimate is more than $2 million – Virginia could educate hundreds of children.”
Works out to 0.017% of the children in Virginia schools. Way to go, Virginian-Pilot! Only 99.83% to go! All we need is to save 6,000 murderers from execution and we can cover the entire education budget.
If that made sense, Mike Dukakis would’ve been President.
“it would keep the state from killing someone later found to be innocent”
Wait a minute!!!! Didn’t the Pilot just tell us that these folks would plead guilty if there was no death penalty? Now, they’re telling us death row is full of innocent people. Which is it?
Is the Pilot actually saying that innocent people will plead guilty if all they have waiting is life imprisonment, even though they are innocent? But if the death penalty is an option, these innocent people only then decide to plead innocent because of the death penalty?
Liberal logic is so easy to defeat. Just listen to what they say, and repeat it back to them. Even they realize how foolish they sound when they start calling you names and attacking you in response.
Read their entire editorial here. It’s obviously more than they did.
