String 'em up!

Here's a case where if you can't accept the first premise, the second one really won't make be your cup of tea (or hemlock).

Capital punishment in the U.S. takes the lives of poor people and/or non-whites at a stupidly disproportionate rate to the general population. That nation thinks it is OK for the state to kill people.

Premise 2: It is not killing them fast enough. We in Canada becry "wating time" as a serious problem - waiting time for medical services. Republicans agree with us - but their "waiting time" is for executing those on death row. That's right - their government is not killing people FAST ENOUGH so a bill has been introduced to strip rights to appeals so that the poor black man who had the only lawyer he could get can get wrongly executed as soon as possible.

Milgaard...Morin..Truscott - aren't you glad we don't have the death penalty?

Oh, and I heard a capital trial costs 5 to 10 times what it costs to imprison a person for life.

TF.