Your tax dollars are going where??

So the BBC news knows the story. Ironically enough, I came across it in their "Americas" headlines before I saw it anywhere else. I guess the Illinois papers don't think it's a big enough story, although the Chicago Tribune has it, but I had to search. I also had to search to find the story on CNN. And we wonder why other countries view us so poorly - they're better at broadcasting the bad news than we are, I guess.

Yeah, okay... so this guy, Michael Ross, was supposed to be executed on Monday. He killed 8 people. He confessed. He's been convicted. He's been on death row for a long while now, and I guess he's tired of it. He's stopped fighting his death sentence and is ready to chuck in the towel. Score one for the taxpayers who have to pay for the prisons - right?

Wrong. Now they've gotta spring for psychoanalysis to make sure that Michael Ross is "mentally competent to decide his fate" according to the CNN article. I guess there's this thing called "death row syndrome" that these hardened criminals get after they've been there for a while.

Awwwwwwww. Gosh, like, how awful for them. Those pooooor widdle murdering bastards.

I mean c'mon already!

It's no wonder crime is so abundant in today's America - we don't have the balls to actually do anything bad to the criminals! We feed, clothe, and shelter them instead! And when they confess to something like murder, we allow them years of appeals on their sentence. And, if it's the death sentence - now we have to make sure that they are "competent" enough to die...

I am, in fact, astonished. This guy crossed that invisible line in the sand in my mindset. Just finish it already. He wants to die now? Even better - let him have it.