Execution 1,000

Sadly, it appears that the U.S. has reached the grisly 1,000 mark. The 1,000th prisoner has been executed since 1976. It eerily coincides with the execution of an Australian man in Singapore for drug trafficking (by hanging, picture it, it's important to realize what is actually occuring). The "sport" of death that the U.S. has implanted in it's system of justice is sick. I hope that if a family member of mine was murdered, I would have the strength of will to campaign against putting the accused to death for it. There is no such thing as "two wrongs making a right". I learned it as a child in school, but apparently, some of the bible-thumping type haven't. Murder by the state in the name of justice is no more valid than murder by vigilante. I am no pacifist, but capital punishment violates my secular humanistic principles.