Death penalty ‘needs killing:’ Alabama’s next execution should be its last
Where I come from, when a no-good so-and-so was visited by a big dose of karma, folks would justify it by spittin’ out three words: He needed killin’.
I’m of the mind that in Alabama, with its prison horror story history of corruption, incompetence and botched executions, the death penalty is what needs killin’.
It’s time. Way past time in Alabama. Alabama is the worst place to be executed. This state messes things up so bad, you’re either gonna die a horribly slow, accidentally painful death, like Joe Nathan James. Or, you’re gonna go through a similar fumbling process of finding vein access when the death warrant expires, like failed execution survivor Alan Eugene Miller.
Related: Dead man talking: ‘I survived Alabama execution attempt’ – al.com
Read all about the Alabama Department of Corrections’ bloody blunders in ‘The Year of the Botched Executions’ report and my colleague Ivana Hryinkiw’s comprehensive look at Alabama’s death penalty troubles.
In Alabama, we’re good Christians who love to kill bad people. We just can’t figure out how to do it right.
The death penalty deserves the death penalty.
Lots more good stuff to read about all this:
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Related: Alabama faces uncertainty in 2023 after year of death penalty troubles – al.com
Related: Executions back on in Alabama after brief moratorium – al.com
Related: Witnessing an Alabama execution? Wear a strong set of underwear, ladies – al.com
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
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