misAdventures of Workmonkey 3.0

Sorry to address a political topic twice in one month, but I couldn't pass this one up. Tonight, some "doctor" employeed by San Quentin Prison is going to inject a death-inducing cocktail into Clarence Ray Allen's left arm. On its own, this usually wouldn't raise eyebrows in our death-hungry country. The difference this time is Clarence Allen is 76, legally blind, nearly deaf, and confined to a wheelchair. In other words, he is zero threat to anyone outside of the orderly who pushes his wheelchair. So, because his execution isn't meant to protect society, as some death penalty supporters proclaim, it is solely a revenge killing. Kill him as punishment. The best part isn't even that he is a dying old man. The best part is that in September, while in prison, his heart stopped. He had died of natural causes. However, the state of California couldn't miss out on their chance to kill someone, so they brough in doctors to revive him. They literally brought him back from death so they could return him to death row. Saved him so they could kill him. Some of you might not consider that "cruel" or "unusual", but anyone of mild intelligence has to consider that "stupid". Another in a long line of intelligent decisions by the human race.