I have had some time to ruminate this week on the execution of Clayton Lockett. I am constantly in awe of how much love and affection the Left has for the criminal element in our society. The sheep among them I guess just cannot fathom the evil of evil men, and because of that, they always side with evil versus good.

I write this because I saw that the Anti-Death penalty folks have yet to find a pair of panties that aren’t nearly bunched enough, especially now that Clayton Lockett, one of their little fallen angels in Oklahoma, suffered through a botched execution via lethal injection wherein he had to suffer some discomfort on his way to a place where he will likely suffer much more.

Note to State Governments with the Death Penalty: Bullets don’t have nearly the failure rate as lethal injection does. Something for next time I guess…

But the idea that it is moral to keep this oxygen thief alive on the premise that to do so is how we exact justice is not only wrong-headed, it is evil in itself.  So everyone is clear, this is a brief summary of  what Mr. Lockett did when he fell from heaven to get himself to death row:

Clayton Lockett, 23; along with Shawn Mathis, 26; and Alfonzo Lockett, 17; planned on robbing Bobby Lee Bornt, 23, at his house in Perry, Okla. They tied up Bornt and beat him in front of the man’s sobbing nine-month-old son. At the same time, Stephanie Neiman, 18, was dropping off her friend Summer Bradshaw at Bornt’s home. All three robbers raped the two girls, and then drove the girls, Bornt, and his baby son to a rural area. They forced Mathis to dig a grave over which Lockett shot Stephanie Neiman twice. Unfortunately, she did not die from the gunshot wounds, and so she cried and begged not to be buried alive. But Clayton Lockett ordered her buried.

Execution? Hell, get that dude a Nobel Peace Prize and a scholarship to Harvard. Sounds like such a nice man.

Oklahoma TV station KFOR interviewed some folks in Perry, Oklahoma, who it turns out, feel that the ACLU and the Innocence Project and all the other people with their moral panties in a wad are living on another planet regarding the application of the death penalty.

“Who cares if he feels pain,” stylist April Sewell, at Hair Naturally in Perry told the Oklahoma TV station. “You know, honestly, he’s getting away a lot easier than how his victim did, how Stephanie did.”

Marilee Macias, owner of the town’s popular diner, Kumback Lunch, told KFOR, “What that guy got, he deserved.”

Tiajuana Hammock, a friend of the family of Lockett’s murder victim, Stephanie Neiman, told the station: “I have no sympathy at all. None whatsoever. Stephanie was beat up; she was shot; she was thrown in a grave when she was still alive. His little 30 minutes of lying there in anguish, if he was even feeling any anguish for 30 minutes, does not compare at all to anything Stephanie went through, or her family.”

Bobby Lee Bornt, the man who was tied up and beaten by Lockett and his accomplices, said he was tired of all the talk about Lockett’s rights.

“Everything that’s been talked about is them, what they feel, and no one’s mentioned what Stephanie’s family feels and Summer and her family and what it’s done to them or me and my family,” Bornt said. “We live with this every single day and it, it’ll honestly tear you apart.”

In my own state, we have 190 inmates serving a life sentence and another 36 inmates on death row who all cost about 25,000 dollars a year to keep above ground. If you do the non-Common Core math, that is a cool 5.65 million dollars per year spent on each and every one of them. Now extend that out to 25 years (the average amount of time it takes to execute one of these inmates/have them die in custody while serving their sentence). 5.65 million times 25 years = 141,250,000.

That sure buys some fire trucks, cop cars and school books.

With all the moralizing I hear from the left and their bumper stickers about how we need to have the Air Force hold a bake sale to buy a bomber and fully fund schools, how we never have enough money for firefighters and cops, and how teachers need to be paid a living wage; I never hear from the Left how we could go a long way toward solving that crisis by putting some more of these confirmed dirt-bags in the ground. I never hear from the Left about how justice for the victims could be achieved. I never hear from the Left how Hell’s douchebags are going to be held to account for the evil and the wicked things they do. They aren’t going to cure cancer or solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem, so why are they so dead set (“dead set”—I kill myself LOL) against removing monsters from the gene pool?

Mostly, I hear a whole lot about how the death penalty is “barbaric” and “immoral.” The idea that it is moral to keep an animal like this alive without regard to what the victim’s families would regard as justice is wrong. It is not moral, nor is it right. The mere fact that death penalty opponents cannot give anyone a reason why the death penalty is more immoral than the acts that put the killer in this position in the first place should tell you anything you need to know about liberalism.

What is barbaric and immoral is not understanding evil, nor being willing to confront it and stamp it out so that others will not be harmed by it.

It is too bad that we can’t ask Stephanie Neiman what she would want to happen to the man who raped her, shot her twice and buried her alive. I bet she would have an opinion on the death penalty.

How about we start killing these animals and saving ourselves the waste of time and money they are and start making this world a better place.