This is Handel on the Law, marginal legal advice.

All right, the death penalty.

I've always liked talking about the death penalty because we are, I think, one of two or three industrialized nations on the planet that still have the death penalty.

It just doesn't exist in most of the world.

And so people get executed in this country. California has been 13 or 14 years,

even though we do have the death penalty here. Then you have states like Texas where people are

executed about as often as I change my underwear every week. You have someone going down. You have

Florida. The two big ones are Florida in Texas where people are executed many of states where it's a state

issue by the way it's also a federal issue it's both state and federal you can be

executed for a federal crime and you can be executed for a state crime so in the

states there are several states Minnesota for, for example, does not have the

death penalty. That saved Jeffrey Dahmer, by the way, from being eaten by the state because he was in a state

didn't have the death penalty. And so there has been a fight going on regarding the death penalty

for, I don't know decades and decades because

there is an entire movement out there a whole large group of people that just don't understand

the entertainment value of the death penalty they just don't get it and so they fight the death penalty. They just don't get it. And so they fight the death penalty.

And they've been very successful. And the argument, originally it was cruel and unusual

punishment on its face. The Eighth Amendment, you cannot kill somebody because that is

inherently cruel and unusual just because of the death penalty. Well,

the courts threw that one out. So now it is attacking the methods of execution. And it used

to be, you know, I mean, used to have some fun stuff. You'd have the electric chair where people

fried and were fizzled and flames shot off the top of your head. Great stuff.

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