The humanity of it all...

So, here I am...up at 4 am after getting NO sleep the night before and taking a melatonin last night in order to get a good night's sleep. I think I woke up though because I was sweating like a menopausal woman due to the fact that we shut the AC off but did NOT open the windows. Pretty smart, I thought. Anyway, back to our regulary scheduled programming...

So, here I am doing some surfing, checking out my new favorite blog by this person in Alaska, becoming more and more outraged by the unbelievableness (is that even a word) in this campaign and the pure stupidity of the American people (more on that later), I go to my facebook page, join a new group, change my status, read Beth's blog, read Jen's blog (who will need donations soon to get her kid out of the slammer...haha), go the Obama site and see if there are any events happening around here that I can help with, and then pop onto CNN to see if there is anything interesting there.

I come accross this article regarding an overweight death row inmate. Before I go off on this article, let me clarify that even though I am completely pro-choice, I am definately pro death penalty. I feel that if you have done something to someone else's liberties, you have lost all rights in my eyes. I am a true believer in an eye for an eye, and that I shouldn't be paying for you to have the privilege to breathe. I think this is where the Italian mob side in me comes out. To summarize this article, this particular inmate is apparantly too fat to kill due to the fact that they will have a hard time finding his veins in order to get the IV in.

Yes...you read this correctly. This animal, who raped, beat and killed (along with another person) two college girls, is avoiding the death penalty because they CAN'T REACH HIS VEINS. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???!!! They are concerned with the HUMANITY of it all??? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? I'm sorry...were they thinking of the humanity of those two innocent women as they were beating them? Were they thinking of the humanity of those women before or after they carved "Xs" on their stomachs after they killed them?

Now, in the article he states that he did participate in some crimes leading up to their deaths, but denied beating them. Oh..ok...well, that makes a HUGE fucking difference in my mind.....NOT! They are still dead, you are still alive, and you have been sitting on death row since 1986. For 22 years this fat ass has been sitting there, being fed 3 meals a day, with a roof over his head, access to free medical care, and will continue to stay there because it is too inhumane to access his veins.

I remember when I went into the hospital to have Olivia, I was "lucky" enough to get a brand spanking new nurse to find my veins to put an IV in. Umm...she couldn't do it, but we didnt find this out until she stuck me and dug and dug and dug for it. And I didn't kill anyone to deserve that honor.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY??