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Do you know what $30 million can buy these days? What your average cash-strapped urban playground could do with that kind of money, particularly during a recession?

Here's my simple and semi-obvious idea: what if Washington D.C. had taken the same $30 million, and instead of killing a single remorseless criminal, created upwards of 600 full-ride college scholarships for lower-income or minority students, at 50 grand each.

In other words, for every criminal a given state is seeking to execute -- like, for example, the Fort Hood killer, who they say might well be eligible for the death penalty -- we take the same tens of millions in taxpayer dollars and send hundreds of kids through college instead, kids who otherwise would never have been able to afford it and in fact might've ended up on the streets or in prison.

We'll call it the Lethal Injection College Fund… From dark to light. From excrement, flowers. From our most violent nightmares, a hint of grace. What a th

even from a simple economic perspective, the death penalty is ridiculous

... and of course, it is simply wrong.

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The celebration of collective revenge is just peachy. What a strange basis for the so called followers of Christ to claim.

If killing is wrong for the individual, it's wrong for the state.