Moral posturing and the death penalty

Today the death penalty is discussed in two places and the hypocrisy of its opponents is nauseating. At Bearing Drift, we have a post that asks whether the people that elect them or the Democrats who get elected are more at fault when they break their pledges to not raise taxes and to enforce the death penalty.

The very first comment from a moral cretin named J. Tyler Balance calls executing a convicted murderer of a police officer “Murder.” Not to put too fine a point on it, he equates the actions of a cold blooded killer with the actions of someone who kills in defense of his life or the life of another. It murders the language and destroys the meaning of words which are designed to allow people to differentiate between, for example, pushing and old woman to mug her or to get her out of the path of an oncoming bus.

In a fit of moral on-upmanship he put the State in the position of either God or the church when he writes:

I believe that life without parole is the humane solution that would punish the guilty, yet permit the redemption of their souls.

The redemption of the souls of murderers is now the role of the State? This from a resident of the state which finds its holy writ in the writings of Thomas Jefferson who famously penned the words “separation of church and state” which led to the virtual elimination of references to God in schools except as part of a curse?

Not to be outdone, the Virginian Pilot has decided that the unilateral decision on the part of Timmy Kaine to halt the death penalty is not based on his personal preferences (or theirs) but simply the right thing to do. It makes it so much easier to do the “right thing” when its something you want to do all along. But then, hypocrisy never takes a holiday at the Virginian Pilot.

A necessary halt in state executions
GOV. TIM KAINE'S decision to stop executions until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of lethal injection was a prudent move, not a political one.

Yeah, sure.

Pull the other one.