[twigs]

I am for the death penalty, but the older I get, the more I question it. I still stay in the capital camp, but I do always think it through carefully and thank God each time that I'm not a governor with that decision to make. I don't join in the light-heartedness I see about it because I think death is always a sad event, regardless of the person dying and circumstances of his or her life.

[defenderSD]

I'm against the death penalty myself, not because it is immoral for certain crimes but becauese too many mistakes are made by police gathering evidence and in the testimony of witnesses. I prefer the idea of converting a few maximum security prisons into prisons for lifers, where the only way anyone gets out alive is if they are proven to be innocent.

(Now I will quickly don my flame-proof suit.)

[ichabod1]

I think death is always a sad event, regardless of the person dying and circumstances of his or her life.

I can't, I can't, I can't stop to feel sad about all deaths, especially one like this. Oh, I know not to ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for me. But we've got a shooting war going on, and we have to be strong. We have to rediscover our inner warriors. Don't lose your kind heart, just save it for those who need you -- the weak and defenseless. The old, the children, the sick. Death comes to every man and woman some day. We must all prepare in our own way, to meet our God for only He knows the day and the hour.