Penalty of Death

The Tide Shifting Against the Death Penalty

Well, not really. This article turns on the reduced number of executions, and only briefly mentions the temporary hold on executions due to the Supreme Court's review of lethal injections. It's not like death row inmates are on a conveyor belt to the chamber. These things are scheduled, and it takes time to get everything rolling again after a work stoppage.

As for the arguments for and against the ultimate penalty... I don't think the penalty is a deterrent to crime, but I think there are criminals who are getting off light through lethal injection. Yeah, some of these sick fucks like Manson, and others who have murdered brutally, grotesquely, etc. ought to be tortured in like manner before ultimately being put to death in some horrendous manner. Of course, maybe they'd like that, so maybe keeping them caged is worse. Ugh, only God knows. Maybe they don't get their justice until after death, so... all the more reason for the death penalty.