Didja hear? Douthat has aped my style to perfection!
My first read was that he was saying, "American must allow the occasional execution of potentially innocent people like Troy Davis, because if it weren't for the death penalty, no one would care that Troy Davis might have been innocent when we put him to death."
In typical Brooksian fashion, there are all sorts of nice points in there about the fallibility of our justice system and the harshness of prison life (although he seems a little too interested in prison rape). But also in typical Brooksian fashion, the better points add up to nothing and somehow observations that would seem to be leading to a "liberal" solution veer suddenly off course and land squarely in the arena of GOP nostrums.
I just want the Times to know that if they pay, I can do that, too.
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