Tookie Williams denied clemency

[Boss Radio]

Whatever.

Now all the big-hearted celebrities can go back to their mansions after grandstanding to the cameras, leaving the clean-up to the T-shirt gypsies, while we brace for the inevitable martyr marketing machine that will shower us with Tookie R.I.P. clothing and talking Tookie Furbys (Gangs are bad! Put down that gun and pick up a book!)

Perhaps Scott Peterson can take heed and release a coloring book called “Killing Pregnant Ladies is Bad”, and then maybe, just maybe, he can get clemency because he’s turned over a new leaf.

And good old Charlie Manson can pen a Pop-Up Book warning the dangers of listening to the White Album with a group of drug-addled followers who obey your every command: (Killing is wrong, even if you think the Beatles told you to.)

The victims all might have gone on to write award-winning children’s books, but they didn’t get that extra 25 years to follow that dream. They got dead instead.

The Death Penalty is far from perfect. The system is inherently flawed, as are the people who make it run. But, and it is always a but, there needs to be the ultimate punishment for the ultimate crime.

Personally, I’d much rather see taxpayer money go towards community outreach to help out the next generation of underprivileged kids, than to watch it go toward three squares a day, computer access, exercise equipment and medical resources on lifers. Let them generate their own power on treadmills, let them grow and prepare their own food. If the food runs out, they can eat each other.

But that's just my opinion.