TIME has a fine (and non-Jesus!) piece up about the voluntary execution "movement" butting heads with the anti-death penalty movement.

This is the sort of debate I love, as it's intra-ideological. The libertarian/left's belief in the right-to-command your own fate, vs. the mainstream left's social do-gooder-ism. And why should a convicted murderer even have such broad-ranging rights to begin with? It's all so tricky. The article also hints around that that murderers demanding death might be playing a final game of sorts with justice. (I certainly believe that)

In Connecticut, Raymond Roode wishes the state would expedite Michael Ross's execution. Twenty years ago, Ross killed Roode's 14-year-old stepdaughter and her best friend. Roode says the state should execute Ross on its own schedule, not the killer's. He suspects Ross will find a way to get out of his May date with the needle. "It just makes me sick," says Roode, "that he's still calling the shots."

And in another sure-to-be death penalty case...

I really hope Florida kills this monster.