Eat hearty -- avoid execution!

Ronald Post shot and killed a hotel clerk in Ohio almost 30 years ago. He was sentenced to death. His execution date has been set for January 16, 2013. But --- not so fast! say Post's attorneys.

It would be cruel and unusual punishment to execute Post, because he weighs more than 480 pounds. They claim that he won't fit on the execution gurney and that his weight will make it hard for the executioner to find a vein. 

I got to thinking about this. I wonder how he came to weigh 480 pounds while he's in prison. Do they give the prisoners all they want to eat? Why haven't they restricted this man's diet? Why are the taxpayers paying for all that food? 

If the judge finds in his favor, and I were the warden at the prison, within the year, he would be down to a weight that wouldn't pose a "risk" to his execution! If I were a legislator, I would introduce alternative methods of execution -- such as a putting a little strychnine on his burgers and a big dose of arsenic in his ice cream! Those require no gurney and no needles. As my mama always said, "More than one way to skin a cat!"

"Hefty inmate cites execution risk." The Dallas Morning News; September 18, 2012; p. 5A.