The meeting of Law Students Against the Death Penalty was well attended by the ghosts of executions past and future. However, not a single law student attended other than the two current officers.

This is one of those issues that you are either for or against - there is no middle ground - so in an attempt to stay relevant and reflect the true sentiments of the student body, we are changing our name to Law Students FOR the Death Penalty.

Our new statement of purpose reads:

• We want revenge for innocent lives lost, and nothing short of death will do. Even the mistaken execution of an innocent person or three is better than no execution at all.
• We believe that encouraging grieving family members to participate in the violent, agonizing death of the offender will help them heal and make their family whole again.
• We will lobby legislators to reduce due process requirements so that executions can be processed as quickly as possible.
• We believe that executing people will make our communities safer by removing flawed human beings from the gene pool.
• We believe that executions will serve as a warning to criminals, in the same way that putting severed heads on stakes at the entrance to the city deterred crime in medieval Europe.
• Texas is our inspiration.