TOOTS OPLE
I USED to favor the death penalty. In my younger years, I thought people who committed heinous crimes deserved to die at the hands of the State. Slice him open and make him bleed–that sort of mindset. My generation can still remember the public execution of drug lord, Lim Seng, during the Marcos regime as a prime example of using the death penalty as a deterrent. There are crimes that are so vicious and senseless and brutal that one can’t help but feel rage against its perpetrators. Child rape. Chop-chop murders. Acts of terror aimed at killing on a massive scale. There is so much to seek vengeance for.