MSD

Since you mentioned it, my vision of an ideal world (stopping short of a utopia, assuming that crime still happens,) is one in which the death penalty is unnecessary because potential perpetrators of violent acts are killed by their intended victims before they are able to do harm. In this world, I would imagine that violent crime would drop sharply. Realistically, I thnk that well over three quarters of people are not mentally capable of killing another person and that therefore we have what we do now.

Although I don't approve of the death penalty and am firmly against this execution, I think that it's unfortunate that Tookie and his cohorts were not the ones who died in that robbery 26 years ago.