Which do you think would have bothered Hitler more - death or spending the rest of his natural life in a supermax stewing about his failure? Sure, people like him and his minions are pretty clear-cut cases of evil men, but now there is the Willingham case: a terrible crime if true, but one that proved, in the end, to be accidental, not deliberate. It's not because of the Hitlers and the Milosevics and Nizeyimanas that I disfavor the death penalty, it's because of the Willinghams who don't deserve one day in prison, much less death. Personally, I think that killing himself was the only good thing Hitler ever did. ...

Which do you think would have bothered Hitler more - death or spending the rest of his natural life in a supermax stewing about his failure? Sure, people like him and his minions are pretty clear-cut cases of evil men, but now there is the Willingham case: a terrible crime if true, but one that proved, in the end, to be accidental, not deliberate. It's not because of the Hitlers and the Milosevics and Nizeyimanas that I disfavor the death penalty, it's because of the Willinghams who don't deserve one day in prison, much less death. Personally, I think that killing himself was the only good thing Hitler ever did.

I know that if I wanted to go psycho and kill some people for the hell of it, I'd do it in a state like Texas, where they'll execute you even if you didn't do it rather than face being confined for the rest of my life. Unfortunately, all the people I hate that much don't live in death penalty states.