Wednesday, July 02, 2003

A Modest Proposal

I´ve been thinking a lot about how better to deter crimes. I´m against the death penalty for a variety of reasons, but we should stop to consider some possible after-death punishments.

Consider, for example, if all convicted Jewish criminals... or, serious criminals anyway... were to be cremated when they died. Or, perhaps, if it were forbidden for convicted Catholics to receive the last rites before their deaths. For Muslims, of course, we could bury them with pig entrails, as Massachusetts State Senator Guy Glodis suggests.

Just thinking out loud here...