Ken Braun: Death and taxes are dangerous things to trust to
politics  Ken Braun | By Ken Braun | Follow on Twitter on May
22, 2013 at 7:17 AM, updated May 22, 2013 at 7:18 AM IRS
Political Groups.JPGIf you can't trust the government and
politicians with collecting taxes, how can you trust them to
perform capitol punishment with any competency?   In addition to
their status as convicted (or accused) murderers, Pennsylvania
abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, Arizona boyfriend-killer Jodi
Arias and accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were all in
the news last week for another similarity: Prosecutors were
considering having them killed.   Tsarnaev may face a federal
death penalty, otherwise the state of Massachusetts would have
no such option because the state constitution has prohibited
capital punishment since 1982.   The federal government also
enforced the only death sentence that has been carried out in
Michigan since statehood. Like Massachusetts, that is the only
way it can happen here: Michigan has banne