Ross Douthat is a fucking idiot

Go read this.

Did you get the main point he's making? "Letting someone falsely convicted of a crime be put to death is more just than making them be in prison for life.  They get more publicity, and therefore have a better chance at getting a second trial that exonerates them."

Holy fucking shit.  It's better to gamble your life away in the hope that you'll actually get justice?

Hey, let's dissect his closing paragraph:

Abolishing capital punishment in a kind of despair over its fallibility would send a very different message. It would tell the public that our laws and courts and juries are fundamentally incapable of delivering what most Americans consider genuine justice.


Yes, fucking forbid that we change something just because a) some fucktards aren't happy until people die, and b) they could have their happy world view crushed.


It could encourage a more cynical and utilitarian view of why police forces and prisons exist, and what moral standards we should hold them to. 


Because we all know that the police are held to only the highest standards, and that prisons are only run in the interest of society and the benefit of all.


And while it would put an end to wrongful executions, it might well lead to more overall injustice.

You are a shitbag, Ross Douthat.