Sotomayor Says Capital Punishment is Racist

It appears that Sonia Sotomayor left out a potentially controversial memo from her official response to the Senate questionnaire for her confirmation hearing.

Written while she was working for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund (can you imagine the uproar from the lefties if Scalia had belonged to the Sicilian Legal Defense Fund?), Sotomayor’s 1981 memo called the death penalty “racist” and a violation of the present “humanist” society.

The memo held that crime was too “complex” to expect capital punishment to be effective as a deterrent. However, the same memo did not find it too complex to draw a straight line between the racial proportion of people executed and overt racism. A little bit selective reasoning, if you ask me.

The memo also held that in the two years prior to the memo, nothing could be found in any publication that challenged the opposition to the death penalty. I am quite sure they did not look very hard, and probably ignored the writings of Frank Carrington.

Too Fat To Execute?

A man who claims he is too fat to be executed has apparently lost his argument and will finally receive his deserved punishment sometime later today.

The killer, who said his fat precluded a humane lethal injection, had a last meal of "T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, onion rings, french fries, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, hash browns, a pint of rocky road ice cream, a Mountain Dew soft drink and bear claw pastries." Gee, wonder how he got so fat?

Apparently, he was not too fat in 1986 to toss a concrete block off an overpass into the windshield of a car. He was not too fat to drag the two girls in the car to an isolated wooded area. He was not too fat to savagely torture the girls for over three hours. He was not too fat to rape the girls. He was not too fat to strangle the girls till they were dead.

He's not too fat to execute. However, he may be too evil. Perhaps it would be better to put him in the general population and let him be passed around by gangs for use as they see fit.

What is all this uproar about humane execution, anyway? Someone in Texas sued a few years ago because the needle used to inject the lethal drugs was not sterilized beforehand. Save some money and just inject an air bubble from a reused needle. He'll still suffer less than his victims.

UPDATE - RIP scum.