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Continuing on the pros (and cons) of getting news by RSS, I like to add that I also have the opportunity to read foreign news. I used to read Al-Jazeera until I started watching the political cartoons which were shamelessly dumb. Now, I stick to reading BBC News. However, I'm concerned about something that just came across.¹ Basically, there was some concern that prisoners that are executed in the United States by lethal injection might be coherent during the process. After reading, my response was an exclamation that sounded much like Chandler's cry: “Oh my gosh!”

“Prisoners 'aware'”, “…standards do not meet those for putting animals down.”, “Without anaesthesia, the person would experience suffocation and excruciating pain…” — What happened to the good ol' days where the Nazi spy was just tied up, blindfolded and shot? My question is why are we even going out of our way to worry about the pain that a prisoner feels when he's being executed? Did he really care about pain when he whacked his victim or victims? When the Americans capture Usama bin Laden, he'll get less pain than I got when my parents spanked me as a child? I say, after the Americans catch him, just let Usama go… in the middle of Times Square.

People were created in God's image, but people also murder God's image. Since it's God who's saying that we need to kill people who murder people. It also has practical applications: you don't have to pay to keep them alive in prison with cable television, weight rooms and pornographic magazines. Plus, you don't have to worry about creeps like that in society. As my history professor would say, “It kind of puts a little spring in my step.”

1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4444473.stm