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You're either pro-life or you're not.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one here who has a problem with the intellectual dishonesty among those pro-death penalty advocates who are also anti-abortion, and I wonder how many of those switch sides and favor killing babies when conceived by rape or incest.

What also boggles my mind is the numebr of pro-death penalty advocates who regularly pray to God for everything from the winning lotto numbers, to good weather for their upcoming vacation, high grades on their children's report card, business success, and good health, but don't trust God enough to judge those convicted of murder by us mere humans and administer the ultimate punishment. Like you said, you're either pro-life or you're not, and as far as I'm concerned there is no middle ground.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one here who has a problem with the intellectual dishonesty among those pro-death penalty advocates who are also anti-abortion,

If you aren't an idiot, the difference is perfectly clear. The death penalty is for the guilty, not the innocent. Only a deeply evil person reverses that equation.

Sorry, but being pro-life has only one meaning. Pro-INNOCENT life! I wish we could get rid of all rapists, murders, and violent criminals. Ask the families what they think. I'm sure there are some who will opt to let them "rot in prison." But, are they really "rotting." They get 3 square meals, TV, workouts, etc. Sure, it's not life on the outside, but it's better than others who live on the outside. We treat prisoners better than the poor. Kill 'em all and let God sort them out. It's better that they rot in Hell then wasting my tax dollars!

And, just for the record, I AM against ALL abortion in any cercumstance--except, when the mother has a high risk of losing her life. Then the mother, in my opinion, has a hard choice...live, or let her baby live. It has happened when women refuse to have abortions despite high risks of dying. And, many brave women opted not to kill their baby, but instead have themselves die in the process.

There is a special place in Heaven for women like them!

First, this is a State's right issue.

Second, punishment should fit the crime.

Third, equating an unborn child to a person who deprived a person of his or her rights is intellectually dishonest.

Fourth, society must send the murderer to the same place he or she sent the victim, judgment before God. Big huge difference between killing and murder.

What also boggles my mind is the numebr of pro-death penalty advocates who regularly pray to God for everything from the winning lotto numbers, to good weather for their upcoming vacation, high grades on their children's report card, business success, and good health, but don't trust God enough to judge those convicted of murder by us mere humans and administer the ultimate punishment.

Trusting God to judge murderers does not do me any good here on Earth where we have to deal with those murderers until God chooses to do so. These murdering youths are dangerous to fellow inmates and to corrections officers while in prison. They are a danger to the general public if they should escape or be released. Don't think that they cannot ever be released. Texas was about to release convicted, confessed serial killer Coral Watts, who promised to resume killing. Fortunately some prosecutors in Michigan pinned one of his old murders on him and locked him up (hopefully) forever.

Executing murderers is not about "justice." When an innocent person is murdered, there can be no justice, no matter what you do to the killer, the dead cannot be given back their life. The point is to protect the rest of us from someone who has demonstrated how dangerous they are.