Dig him up, then hang him

"Hoka hey, it's a good day to die," Allen said in Choctaw. "Thank you very much, I love you all. Goodbye."

It wasn’t that easy, his 76 year old heart, recently recovered from an attack in September, refused to give up and they had to give him a second shot to stop it.

I’m not going to argue that he was a good man and I’m not going to give my usual polemics against the practice of killing people we don’t have to kill. I’m simply going to use this as another piece of evidence that our country is insane and it’s much vaunted value system is a web of lies and contradictions we use to justify having no value system.

Back in September, Allen had asked prison authorities to let him die if he went into cardiac arrest before his execution, a request prison officials said they would not honor.

"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon as reported by CNN. "We would resuscitate him, then execute him.”

Hocus Pocus; it’s a good day to be insane.