Life Without Meaning It

Opponents of the death penalty have pushed "life without parole" as an alternative. Those of us on the other side knew they were playing slight of hand all along and now they've shed their facade. They really never meant it in the first place.

The Times relies upon the sad story of Jackie Lee Thompson who, when his girlfriend informed him that she was pregant, shot her threes times with a shotgun, then when she failed to die promptly enough, drowned her.

How unfair. I weep for the poor son of a bitch.