Affirmative action executions

Isn't it rather shabby moralizing to oppose the death

    penalty just because it can be viewed as unfair to blacks ?

           To be sure, this particular injustice can be corrected

    even in Texas. Let the good Governor Bush guarantee " affirmative

    action " for whites convicted of murder. Give THEM an

    equal opportunity to sizzle in the electric chair.

          Does it not make better sense to oppose the death

    penalty for the reasons that the Catholic Church opposes

    it: because it is morally wrong AND barbaric ?

         Also, I can think of a good CONSERVATIVE reason to

    oppose the death penalty : If we distrust State power, do

    we want to give it the  heady power to execute ?

            There is more gravy than GRAVITAS in George W.

    Bush.

            But let me be honest. I will lose no sleep over

    most executions.   My own father supported the death

    penalty - and there was not a mean bone in his body..

            Decent people can disagree here, of course !