9th Circuit Upholds CA Death Penalty What's The Point

900 inmates are in California  on Death Row

Almost daily the number continues to grow

Countless appeals and the filings of habeas corpus writs

To defer a penalty that deters murder not one bit

The Ninth Circuit just shot down yet another doubtful legal theory

No wonder mere mortals of lawyers are most leery

If the death penalty is for years delayed by the cons’ legal team

It now becomes cruel and unusual punishment and any chance to execute is a pipe dream

Maybe is is human trait to a murderer of one’s family or friends want to kill

Should the state be in the revenge business when deterrence of the penalty is nil

Statistics may be suspect and coming out of estimates and extrapolation thin air

4 billion dollars and counting to try to put convicts in the lethal injection chair

If there is no way 900 plus inmates will receive the needle of death

Lying on a gurney 20 plus or more years to take their last breath

Why not this system reform and the sentences commute to life without possibility of parole

A lifetime of punishment in a small cell that will on mind and body take its toll

23 hours in a cell alone with one hour out for exercise

Is a fate that one about ready to pull the trigger might his actions revise

Put these killers on social media who will leave prison only in a pine box

Describing the reality of life without possibility of parole is worse than a deadly pox

Instead of spending billions of dollars lawyers on appeals

Use that money on the victim’s families as they try to heal.

© November 12, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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