Originally Posted by spazlabz

The crowd in the clip shown is definitely embarrassing to me as an American who has what could be considered a social consciousness. The "let them die' argument I feel went out of vogue in Dickens time.

I missed the tea party debate last night (dammit) but I watched the one last week and was pretty disgusted at the crowd cheering for the death penalty and the over 200 executions in Texas. I do feel the death penalty has its place and use but cheering for it like your team just score a touchdown is barbaric and disgusting behavior. Those people should be ashamed