Man Executed Because Bureaucracy Sucks

There are problems with the death penality. This, however, is beyond my ability to comprehend. A man was executed after a court decided it didn’t want to stay open to hear a man’s appeal. So the man was executed.

The mind boggles at the implications. I’ve almost finished a degree in Public Administration and in one class, we read the horrible story of bureaucratic actors who allowed a baby to die because they lacked the permissions from the rules to feed the damned thing. How callous does a bureaucratic office have to be to say, “Sorry, we’re closed, let the man die.” How is it possible that these people exist?

What is the feedback mechanism? What happens to these callous people for their horrible decision? A week’s pay? A suspension? What brings the fucking man back? I don’t care whatever crime he committed; it doesn’t matter. He was allowed an appeal and it was denied not by the justice system, but by the person running the office who decided that 20 minutes of staying open late wasn’t worth a person’s life.

The frustration is killing me.