Werner Herzog weighs in on capital punishment, the subject of his next project:
I have only the most primitive of arguments and that is that a state under no circumstances must be entitled to kill anyone off, for any reason, period. You had tens of thousands of cases of capital punishment under the Nazis, you had a systematic program for exterminating schizophrenics in the euthanasia program, and you had a state-sponsored, organized, monumental crime in the Holocaust, killing 6 million people. Language doesn't have an adequate word to describe this monstrosity. For me, there's no debate. However, America has not had this experience.
The Dish 