Arkansas is one of the states in our Union that imposes the death penalty.
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At this writing, one down, seven to go.
That happened almost 50 years ago. They never caught the guys who did it.
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We keep hearing this over and over from the mouths of the state officials seized with the grim task of getting judicial clearance to strap these guys to gurneys and stop their hearts.
Yes, justice is blind, but when you start talking about an eye for an eye, it’s not just blind.
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The executions wouldn’t have extended the life of my grandmother, who died four years after her husband’s murder, technically of breast cancer but actually of a broken heart.