NOTICE: The following
article is written by the author itself and not by me, I am not trying to
violate their copyright. I will give some information on them. I chose this as
the article on the death penalty of the week as Floridian Pedophile, Dean Mark Schwab
was executed on this date, 2 July 2008.
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ARTICLE TITLE: Legal System Is Perverted
DATE: 5 July 2008
AUTHOR: Charley Reese
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Charley Reese (January 29, 1937 - May 21, 2013) was an
American syndicated columnist known for his conservative views. He was
associated with the Orlando Sentinel from 1971 to 2001, both as a writer
and in various editorial capacities. King Features Syndicate distributed his
column, which was published three times per week.
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Charley
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America's court system has been broken,
abused and perverted by lawyers, judges and legislators.
You would think that at least the lawyers and
judges, who use the system to make a comfortable living, would have an interest
in preserving it. Instead, they are the main abusers of it.
These thoughts are prompted by the execution
of Mark Dean Schwab, a 39-year-old psychopathic monster who kidnapped, raped
and murdered an 11-year-old boy. The problem is that it took 16 years after his
conviction to execute this piece of human dung thanks to laws, lawyers and
judges. It's not justice. Neither is lethal injection. How in God's name did we
become so squeamish that we have to provide a peaceful, painless death to vile
and vicious criminals?
Schwab wasn't so kind to his victim, Junny
Rios-Martinez, a little boy who would have made any parent proud. I'm very
proud of this boy's father, who attended the execution. The boy's father said
he had vowed that his would be the last face Schwab would ever see.
Schwab was released from prison early in 1991
after serving half a sentence for raping another boy at knifepoint. Within a
month, he was stalking little Junny. At the time of his trial, he boasted that
he would gladly go to the electric chair if he could have a famous child actor
sit on his lap. When the end finally came, he wasn't boasting about anything.
"Finally" is the key word. It
shouldn't take years and even decades to execute a criminal. Two years from the
day of sentencing should be the final day of the perp's life. Virtually all of
the appeals in capital cases are frivolous, filed by opponents of the death
penalty who simply are trying to wreck the system.
Let's get our thoughts in order concerning
the death sentence. Everybody dies. Everybody is condemned to death from the
day of his or her birth. Thus, executing a criminal isn't doing anything to him
that won't happen anyway. Good and decent people get death sentences every day
from their doctors, and there are no appeals or stays.
When the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of
Rights and prohibited cruel and unusual punishment, it was an era when people
were burned alive, torn apart, drawn and quartered or slowly killed by any
number of torture devices. Certainly, they did not consider hanging or shooting
to be cruel and inhuman punishment.
We should be neither hesitant nor squeamish
about executing people who take the lives of innocent people, especially
children. God knows, if we don't have enough juice to protect and, failing
that, avenge the death of children, then we are a poor excuse for a society.
We could provide university education to 10
children for the cost of keeping one of these dysfunctional human slimeballs
alive for his natural life. I'd support a return to public hanging in the
county where the crime was committed. Let the public come and see justice done.
I'd even favor hiring a Saudi with a good, sharp sword to take the man's head
off. If beheading was good enough for English royalty, it should be good enough
for American animals with two legs.
As for convicting the wrong person, that's a
problem with a community's police and prosecutors and sometimes incompetent
defense lawyers. Clean house. Fix that problem. Don't use it as an excuse to
stop the death penalty. Lawyers, who claim to be professionals, do a lousy job
of policing their own ranks. Incompetent lawyers often end up as judges with
nice vacations and pensions they don't deserve.
One day, the American people may get fed up
enough to vow to never elect a single lawyer to a legislative post. Then we
might get some clear laws that protect the people rather than provide a
lucrative living for lawyers and judges.
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