Maybe political corruption should be a capital offense?

:think:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/02/AR2005120200621.html?nav=rss_politics

White House: Death Penalty Deters Crime

The Associated Press
Friday, December 2, 2005; 11:18 AM

WASHINGTON -- President Bush strongly supports the death penalty in the belief that "ultimately it helps save innocent lives," his spokesman said Friday as the United States marked its 1,000th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it was important that the death penalty "be administered fairly and swiftly and surely, and that helps it serve as a deterrent." He noted that Bush promoted an initiative to expand the use of DNA evidence to prevent wrongful convictions.


As governor of Texas, a state that executes more inmates than any other, Bush commuted one death sentence and allowed 152 executions during his six years in office.

The 1,000th execution took place in Raleigh, N.C., early Friday, where Kenneth Lee Boyd received a lethal injection. He was convicted of killing his estranged wife and father-in-law in 1988.

If it really is a deterent, we'll have the cleanest govt. on Earth.

But, it's not a deterent. China enforces it for corruption a lot. And they keep catching more. People commit crimes because they think they won't be caught.

in China, it may be a 'catch-all' offense for anything the authorities don't like??

Not to mention the executive branch and all those governors and orther crooks..er, legislators, in the states.

Just sayin'. :shrug:

I'm a steadfast opponent of the death penalty. At the same time, I recognize that Treason is defined by the Constitution as a Captial Offense. I'd be willing to make a single exception in the case of political corruption - with complete faith that our 'representatives' would write the laws with such a high standard of proof that they'd never be sentenceed to death.