Surely in the recent aftermath of the horrible Bentler family murders in Bonaparte we'll hear some mention of the death penalty from political candidates.
Republican Jim Nussle would gladly fry any murdering bastards to a crisp, and everybody, except for a handful of wussy-ass, criminal-loving Democrats and the imported Socialist Gannettoids running the Des Moines Register, would be in favor of it.
Democrat Chet Culver is sort of for the death penalty, but only if Jetseta Gage is abducted, raped, and murdered again. In other words, Culver is a phony when it comes to being truly serious about the death penalty. And despite acquiring a rather large spare tire in recent years, I doubt the big lug would ever have the guts to sign a bill giving Iowa prosecutors the choice to abort the most heinous murderers for justice's sake.
Iowa is one of only 14 states that does not use any form of capital punishment after Democrat Harold Hughes and the Iowa Legislature abolished it in 1965. Governor Terry Branstad made the death penalty a big part of his 1990 re-election campaign, but a bill reinstating it died in the Iowa Senate, as have many others since 1970. Lucky for Governor Braindead, as his son Eric Branstad, driving recklessly in Dallas County in 1991, made an improper pass and hit another car head-on, killing two people, Charles and Jean McCullough. Eric, like most pampered children of politicians, got off with a fucking misdemeanor.
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