One of my favorite quotes, by Ray Bradbury is this:  "We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" The death penalty has always troubled me.  Ever since I was a little kid and read about Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's execution for conspiracy.  (It was part of my nerd thing learning about the Atomic age since I grew up in NM, home to the Manhattan Project.)  I was pretty certain that conspiracy wasn't a death penalty offense even then so I took it that they were killed simply for the convenience of the government.  It made me question what justice is and isn't and that continues to this day. Over the last 20 or so years, I've seen and read stories about over 200 men and one woman (predominantly black with a few whites mixed in), have been released from death row from prisons around the country after DNA evidence has exonerated them of the crimes for which they were convicted.  I have to turn away from the 'reader comments' about these on places like CNN, because the majority think because these men may have already been criminals, they should have just been executed and "let God sort them out."   The ideal of justice has been perverted to a 'glory in revenge' mentality, I think.  I find it grotesque and obscene that Mr. Perry gives no thought to the possibility that any person on his state's Death Row, could be innocent and that he would allow them to be killed without reservation.   Men and women like him are sociopaths of the same stripe as a Ted Bundy.