Death to the Death Penalty

New Mexico has just outlawed the death penalty. Thank God. What a barbaric practice. I don't understand how people can believe the government can't do anything right EXCEPT kill prisoners. Huh? The government isn't the solution, the government is the problem, EXCEPT when it comes to the death penalty. Really? What if the government kills the wrong person? Oh, but the government can't make a mistake, ya know, except for its response to Hurricane Katrina and those missing WMDs, but that's it. It's not that I don't sympathize with victims of crimes, I do. I just think a life sentence with no possibility of parole is a harsher punishment and a more redemptive one. I wish Timothy McVeigh were still alive, in a cell wallpapered with pictures of every one of his victims in the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing, so he'd go to bed and wake up with them staring him in the face. Then, maybe, one day he would recognize the error of his ways and seek forgiveness.