I think there is something wierd about the way the WH is fixated on the death penalty.

[Joanne98]

It's wired but I can't figure it out. I'm pretty sure though, that this is going to be a major conspiracy theory. One of the "New World Corporation" ones. It smells like something very bad!

Fired Prosecutor Says Gonzales Pushed Death Penalty
By Amy Goldstein
The Washington Post

Thursday 28 June 2007

Paul K. Charlton, one of nine U.S. attorneys fired last year, told members of Congress yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has been overzealous in ordering federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty, including in an Arizona murder case in which no body had been recovered.

Justice Department officials had branded Charlton, the former U.S. attorney in Phoenix, disloyal because he opposed the death penalty in that case. But Charlton testified yesterday that Gonzales has been so eager to expand the use of capital punishment that the attorney general has been inattentive to the quality of evidence in some cases - or the views of the prosecutors most familiar with them.

"No decision is more important for a prosecutor than whether or not to . . . deliberately and methodically take a life," Charlton said. "And that holds true for the attorney general."

His testimony before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee reviewing the use of the federal death penalty provided the most detailed account to date of Charlton's interactions with Gonzales's aides about the murder case that contributed to his dismissal. It also was one of the most pointed critiques of Gonzales by any of the fired federal prosecutors, whose removal touched off a furor on Capitol Hill.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807E.shtml

[BOSSHOG]

1. It is rather pathetic and telling

that to placate the pro-life crowd one has to advocate death.

[WinkyDink]

2. Psychopathy + Private Prisons = Win-Win for Bushco!

[Joanne98]

5. A global corporate police state that puts it's resistors to death!

[Spinzonner]

3. Seems more like a fetish

[DemGa]

4. A lot of sociopaths in that crowd

Conservatism is a mental illness explains it for me.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Anyone in the anti-DP movement will tell you that..

back in the days of Texas Gubnuh W, the DP was always high on the list of good times, and Gonzo was Shrub's go-to guy for expedited executions.

I always thought that Shrub got off on executions-- he always had that look of, well, sexual release when someone in Huntsville got the needle.

And then there's that famous video of him making fun of Karla Faye Tucker just before she got hers.