“Imagine that a ship is sinking in the ocean with 300 passengers on board and only 200 life-preservers.  The only just solution is that everyone drown.”  -Thomas Sowell

Many death-penalty opponents say, "It's not going to bring your loved one back."  Google it -- tons of them say this.  To which I now respond, "WHAT?!  It doesn't reincarnate them like Lazarus?!"

Leftist-anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated William McKinley who died on September 14, 1901.  Czolgosz was convicted and was sitting in the electric chair on October 29, 1901.

And yet Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 at Parkland, has not even begun his trial 1,217 days later.  The search for perfect justice in our system has created terrific injustice elsewhere -- for the families who have to wait 30 years for the sentence to be meted out, for the taxpayers who have to pay millions to convict a man who OBVIOUSLY DID IT, and so on.

Most of us look back on the old days of shaming out-of-wedlock children and fat people with disgust.  But yet -- what if that did untold good?  It's a genuinely unresolved question for me.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.  -Calvin Coolidge