If I ran the zoo

Okay, are you sitting down? You are about to be very surprised by what this progressive liberal is about to say.

I am very much in favor of the death penalty for murderers who are absolutely guilty of their crimes.

Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon in 1980 as Lennon was walking into his apartment at The Dakota in Manhattan. Chapman remained at the scene reading J.D. Salinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye” until he was arrested by police. Chapman is still alive. He has been interviewed by Barbara Walters and Larry King and given a tremendous amount of media attention.

Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in 1968, Sirhan was an Arab Christian born in Jerusalem and was incensed by Kennedy’s support of Israel in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Sirhan Sirhan was granted parole by a two-person panel in California this year, but Governor Gavin Newsom blocked Sirhan’s release.

James Earl Ray pled guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., then recanted his plea. His death came after he spent nearly 30 years vainly attempting the right to what he considered a fair trial although he did not deny he was the killer.

There have been unsuccessful assassination attempts against Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

And so many killings of innocent ordinary people, with the numbers rising as gun violence continues to rise in America.

I truly believe that a great motivation to assassinate a famous person is to bring attention to yourself. The assassins have become famous and are allowed to live out their lives under a spotlight.

I believe that any kind of murderers, famous or not, should be sentenced to death if there is absolutely no doubt that they were the killers and it was not in self-defense. No fame, no glory, no lifetime reading books, meeting with others, continuing to be in the spotlight.

I could be wrong but I strongly believe that there would be less assassinations and cold blooded murders if they got much less attention and were immediately executed after their trial.