I support capital punishment for one reason: American prisons suck. Seriously, the United States has one of the highest recidivism rates in the civilized world, which means our prisons aren't doing their job. If our prisons were serious shit -- places criminals get out of and say, "I will never do what I did to go back to that place" -- we wouldn't have so many repeat offenders, and we wouldn't have to choose between execution and more crime.

Plus, I'm just not comfortable with anybody -- whether it be the government, or a judge, or a group of people -- deciding who deserves to live and who doesn't.

And you've also got to consider the fact that death row inmates cost much, much more to hold. Even though it only costs about $84 for the chemicals used in a lethal injection execution, most inmates on death row cost anywhere from twice as much to ten or twelve times as much per year to hold as regular inmates.

So reform the prison system to make it tougher, and I'll fight for the abolition of capital punishment.