I can feel a book coming on. When I see what a mess the U.S. legal system is I can sympathized with declaring everyone in the system the potential victim of 'cruel and unusual' treatment, and that goes yet again for the U.S. prison system. Yet, considering the punishment for the Norwegian mass slaughterer, that comes off to me as 'coddling' someone who should be six feet under. Yet if I somehow gained authority in the U.S. prison system probably the first thing I'd do is go for a European model of treatment simply to ensure minimum standards of safety and dignity to the workers and inhabitants of the prisonn system.

And quite simply, there are people who we don't need to remain above ground with us. And I'd go beyond that. I think there are crimes that merit capital punishment even if they do not directly cause death. Two in particular are arson and deliberate infrastructure sabotage, such as targeting electrical substations.

BUT: When it calls for applying capital punishment in reality, particularly among living breathing defective humans such as myself, other emotions place me with the anti-death penalty crowd.

So you could get one reaction from me after watching "In Cold Blood" and a quite different reaction after attending a Trmp rally.