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Last year in Jasper, Texas, a man was chained to a pickup truck and dragged through the streets until well after he had expired. The two men responsible for the brutal act are currently on trial for murder. However, the trial keeps hitting delays. First there was a problem with the jury. Apparently, people don't take too kindly to those who enjoy dragging people behind their pickups. Then there were problems with the judge. Apparently judges have the same problem. Lawyers have argued back and forth for over a year now with nothing really being solved. The two men have been convicted several times, and the case is on its latest of numerous appeals. The issue at hand: The death penalty.

The fifth amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. In cases like this, a fundamental question arrises. How cruel and unusual is it to be tied to a vehicle and dragged to death? If thier victim did not have the luxury of this right, why should they? They have been convicted, there were eye witnesses that saw them doing it, there are forensic reports that match the blood of the victim to the chain on the truck. The fact has been declared dozens of times that they are guilty of murder. Why shouldn't they be made to suffer just as they made thier victim suffer?

In the matter of forgiveness, there is one thing to say. We, the People of the United States ordained and established the Constitution in order to (among other things) establish justice, not to forgive. We as Americans do not fund our courts to forgive. They exist for but one purpose, to establish justice. We as humans can forgive them. We as humans can embrace them into the fold of humanity and clear thier record of any wrong. We as Americans, however, have a duty to uphold justice. The courts cannot be human. The courts cannot have the luxury of human kindness. The legal system must be a machine for justice. It must serve the interests of the People of the United States without passion or prejudice. The courts must be free of humanity.

When a crime like this is commited, the guilty must be punished swiftly. Every day that those two go on living with the luxuries of Americans is an injustice. Every hour that they exercize the rights that they took away from thier vicitim is an injustice. Every minute that they go unpunished for thier crime is an injustice. The courts cannot forgive. They must establish justice. The machine that was set in motion 223 years ago must churn out justice to those who have taken away the liberty of another and for those who have had it taken away. In order for justice to survive, the courts must enact punishment. In order for America to survive, justice must be swift.

Personally, I have an idea that, in this case, is neither cruel or unusual. Let's get a pickup truck and a chain.... However, I am not a judge, and I cannot make that decision. Maybe I should run for office. Nahhh!!!

So let it be posted, so let it be done.