ATLANTA-- Under scrutiny following the intensely watched execution of death-row inmate Troy Davis, both houses of the Georgia State legislature have passed a resolution abolishing the State's longstanding tradition of capital punishment.Davis' case was thrust into the national spotlight after he was denied a further stay of execution. His execution received condemnation from activist groups such as the NAACP, former President Jimmy Carter, and from former US Representative Bob Barr (R), a well-known conservative from Georgia. "There was simply too much guilt," Barr said. "It just goes to show you, in Georgia, they will fry anything."
The resolution, if signed by Governor Nathan Real (R), would make Georgia the 15th state in the country to remove capital punishment, and the first in the kill-happy zone many refer to as the Bible Belt of United States.
Senate President and Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle (R) told the Solicitor that leaders now understand the moral consequences involved in the state-sponsored execution of another human being.
"This gross practice, long since curtailed in states and countries far and near, has come to symbolize our lack of compassion, and has not, as the great writer once said, stood as a beacon of our civility. "For more than three centuries, this State has used capital punishment as a deterrent to murder, but the Blacks keep killing each other, and more importantly, white people. It's time for us to move on and find another method.
"After watching several episodes of the HBO series OZ, it seems that Black and Hispanic men fear ass-rape more than death, so in place of capital punishment, we will mandate the public, systematic sexual violation of criminals."
Cagle denies that this strategy conflicts with human rights statues against rape and torture saying, "honestly, we've been fucking them over for 400 years now, it's about time we put it on the books."
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