I essentially quit watching CNN a few years ago for the purpose of getting news. I do check it now and again to see what THE MAN has to say. At the fitness club, they have CNN on in the room where I use the stairmaster. Yesterday morning they were reporting on the Peterson trial -- describing his reaction when the verdit was read and telling some rumor about how the jurors had telegraphed the verdict ahead of time to the relatives. Like this is news... After several minutes of this, they switch to 
Jack Cafferty, who goes into a diatribe about how the death penalty isn't good enough: they should take Peterson out in a boat, tie bags of cement to him, and push him over the side, but that life in prison would be better than lethal injection because he's a good looking guy and would be "the queen of the prom".
Ordinarily, I'd be all in favor of the death penalty for Scott Peterson, but they don't do it fast enough. What they ought to put him in that little boat that he used to dump Laci's body in the bay, make some of those little cement anchors, like he made for her, tie them around his ankles, row him out into the bay off the same pier and throw him over the side.
But they don't, they put him in some maximum-security prison on death row, and he sits there in relative comfort for 10, 15, 20 years, while they go through all the appeals. Perhaps better life without parole. Put him in the general prison population. He's a young, good-looking guy, and see how long it takes before he's queen of the Friday night prom among the folks in San Quentin, and the Thursday night prom, and the Wednesday night pro, and the Tuesday night prom. Give him Monday day off so he can do his laundry.
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I've heard people voice these opinions before, but typically ignorant dirtbags in backrooms and alleys -- not journalists in the mainstream media. I'm disgusted to think that people believe our system of law is about revenge rather than justice or that our penal system is about meting out homosexual rape as a form of punishment. Have we really sunk so low?