Back in 1985 a little eight year-old girl, Shandra Whitehead, was raped and murdered. A horrible offense by any standard. The crime was so ugly that somebody (anybody> had to pay. It wasn't so important that it was the right person, just any person. It was Florida and so, like Pennsylvania, the mania was to extract a life for a life. Guilt was less important than vengeance. In fact, in extremist states such as Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida, vengeance is more important than rational thinking. A man named Frank Lee Smith was arrested and charged with the crime. He claimed his innocence. But, it was a terrible crime so why trouble with techicalities like evidence, fair trail or rational deliberation? Mister Smith was found guiltyand sentenced to death. Killing Mister Smith wouldn't bring back the murdered child. It would make every citizen an accessory to another killing; and yes, it would make the bloodthirsty revenge freaks feel like somehow they'd gotten "even." Even if the death sentence was ever justified, there's simplyno way to tell for sure who's guilty. There's no way to tell how many innocent persons languish right this moment on death row waiting for you and me to kill them. In Pennsylvania at least two men are certainly not guilty fo th crimes for which we'll kill them. The only rational alternative is not to have a death row at all. While waiting on deathrow for Jeb Bush's Florida to kill him, Mister Smith was diagnosed as having cancer. The Bush family are a degenerate gang of serial killers. (Even the President's wife is a killer.) It's likely a genetic defect, a kind of sickenss which costs other people their lives. Since Mr. Smith was on death row and the state was going to kill him anyway, Govrnor Bush and the other fine citizens of Florida decided to just let him die of his disease. The condemned Frank Smith suffered terribly. IT was a hideous death, but Bush and the "corrections" officials, figured, "what the hell, he deserves it." THe cancer finally took him in the beginning of 2000. Then, after Mister Smith was dead, somebody decided that it would be fund to see if he was really the murderer, not that it mattered much so long as Florida got someone to kill. The FBI tested his DNA. It didn't match the DNA of the person who'd raped and murdreed little Shandra. Frank L. SMith was innocent. Bush and the revenge freaks say "that don't mattter, none, somebody had to pay for that little girl's murder." Who'll pay for Frank L. Smith?