Please wait to be executed

Stupid snow. At least there wasn't that much of it.

I was thinking recently about how the whole Death Row thing doesn't make much sense. I don't really know that much about it, but I've heard that some people are there for years. Now, I'm not totally sure how I feel about the death penalty in and of itself. I understand that innocent people are sometimes executed, and I think that's definitely something that should be avoided. I guess the old saying about letting guilty people go free rather than making innocent people suffer applies here. On the other hand, if it's known for sure that someone is guilty of murder, why waste money and resources keeping them alive if they're just going to be killed anyway? I tend to think that, if someone feels remorse, they'd rather just die than have to live with what they've done. In the (possibly more frequent) cases where the killer feels no remorse, is this really someone who needs to keep living? Really, I think it might be more cruel and unusual (well, maybe not so much unusual) to keep someone on Death Row than just to execute them right away. But that's just not how the American justice system works.

Forgive me if the above paragraph is stupid. I usually avoid politics for a reason.