Oh just die.

Pity the poor folks in Kaleefornia. Despite having the Gropinator as Govenor, they're now stuck with the prospect of building a $220 million addition to San Quentin to house all the people the state of Kalifornia is waiting to kill. Besides being expensive, the Kaleefornians have concerns about the expansion spoiling the view of the bay. But the state's constitution sez death row's gotta be at San Quentin. (So much for the wisdom of micromanaging by constitution.)

Here's the kicker, as posted in Salon from an AP wire story: "Prison officials have said that a new death row is needed because security at the prison's existing death row is so inadequate it is considered life-threatening."

No, I'm not making this up -- working on death row is as lethal as living on death row. Maybe moreso, since prisoners get some form of due process before their ticket gets punched. No such luck for the staff.

The article goes on to state: "The current death row, the only one in California, was designed 70 years ago to hold 68 inmates but now houses more than 600 men in three aging buildings."

Which shows you how effective the death penalty is at preventing crimes.

Philoking's modest suggestion would be that the Terminator Gropenator put explosives in the current building, enough to destroy the place completely, and light 'em up. That would rid Kaleefornians of all the bad guys in San Quentin simultaneously, make for great film footage, and give the state (once the rubble was cleared) an nice builidng site for the new facility where you could lock up even more folks you deemed needed killing. You could probably pay for the whole thing by selling exclusive rights to Fox.

Geeze, ArnHold, it's a win-win. Smoke 'em and then use 'em in the new foundation. Either that or outsource the job to China or Iran, the only two countries who know how to kill off them nasty guys more efficently than we do.