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They must stop.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, America carried out 98 executions over the past five years—an average of 19 per year. Only 5 states and the federal government carried out executions in 2021.

The overwhelming majority of the 98 executions were carried out in Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri.

According to Amnesty International, of world’s 55 countries that still retain the death penalty, only 18 of them executed a total 483 people in 2020—an average of 25 per year by each country.

The overwhelmingly majority of those executions were carried out by China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Egypt.

Now what does Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri have in common with China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Egypt?

They are all racist, they disenfranchise their most vulnerable people, their criminal justice systems are incurably corrupt and totalitarian, and they all have a long history of lynch justice.

But let’s briefly examine the American death penalty for a moment.

It is virtually established within the bounds of normal logic that the death penalty is a byproduct of the systemic racism rooted in American criminal justice.

That said, let’s borrow a page from logic a moment—and I understand that logic is a difficult subject to deal with in today’s social debates, but let’s just give it a try.

That fact by itself makes the penalty inherently unfair.

There are currently roughly 2500 people on death rows in America.

If the country executed one of those persons every day, it would take approximately 8 years to kill them all off.

If the country maintained an average of 19 executions per year as it has over the past five years, it would take nearly 25 years to eliminate all current death row residents.

I don’t think—although I’m not quite sure—that America is prepared to undertake such a sustained human bloodletting.

Against that backdrop, logic demands a cessation of all executions and the elimination of the death penalty because under the current political and social conditions, it is impossible to equitably apply the death penalty in our diverse population and to fairly execute it.

The death penalty, as I see it, makes sense only to those several thousand people in Dallas awaiting the return of JFK and John, Jr. to return from the dead and reinstall Donald Trump as president. They draw their logic from eating dirt and drinking their own urine.

Folks, I’m not kidding. That is what hundreds, if not thousands, of people are doing in and around Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

And as sure as I am sitting here, these are the only people in this country—hailing from Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri—who can make sense out the current state of the death people.