Tom Grimes and Sean McNally - The Monday Morning Memo

(left) Tom Grimes of Amarillo, (right) Sean McNally of Tybee Island

“I was trying to get home from a speaking engagement in Hew Hampshire in 2002. It’s interesting, the things people will say to you when you’re standing in line at the airport because your flight was cancelled…

“Where you headed?”

“Austin, Texas.”

“Is that home?”

“Yeah.”

“You execute more prisoners than any other state in America.”

“I’ve never given it a great deal of thought.”

“It’s been proven the death penalty is completely ineffective as a deterrent to crime. What do you have to say about that?”

“I’d say it’s 100% effective if the murderer is the only person you’re trying to deter. When he’s dead, you can point at him and say with confidence, ‘This murderer is permanently deterred from ever killing anyone again.’”

He laughed and said, “I’ve never looked at it like that. What do you do?”

“I’m an ad writer.”

He said, “I’m a surgeon.”

I said, “It’s been proven that more people die on the operating table than from violent crime. What do you have to say about that?”

He smiled and said, “I’ll bet you’re a good ad writer.”

I smiled and said, “And I’ll bet you’re a good surgeon.”

- Roy H. Williams

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