Mexico Reconsiders Death Penalty
Due to continued general lawlessness, many Mexicans are supporting a return to the death penalty.
Recent polls showed support for the death penalty surging to as much as two-thirds of the surveyed population.
Considering how bad the situation really is south of the border, I can only echo the old advertisement: Try it. You’ll like it.
Liberals, of course, are opposed to the idea. For one, Mexico has signed an international pact under which they are not allowed to reinstate the death penalty once it has been eliminated. (Yet another reason we should simply withdraw from the U.N., as our national sovereignty trumps any possible outside interest.) One law professor even states,
…the state cannot fall into the same criminal behavior as the criminals.
Statement like this betray the lack of underlying moral foundation on the far left. Every moral person agrees that governments can’t (or shouldn’t, at least) behave in a criminal manner. There are, however, crimes for which execution is morally justified. In such cases, it is less moral to allow the criminal to live than to mete out just punishment in the form of death. Unfortunately it is not likely that Mexico will return to rationality in this matter. It’s equally unlikely that the extreme violence that racks the nation will end anytime soon.