[Sthitch]

Not one Catholic Bishop made a public statement about the execution of John Nixon. Yet, they were very outspoken about Williams’ execution. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y., the chairperson of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Policy, wrote a letter to California Governor Schwarzenegger requesting Williams not be executed.

As a Catholic, I am very uncomfortable with the death penalty (but would not say that I am opposed to it), and I have no problem with the Bishops taking a stance against it, I just wish they would be consistent and if they are going to stand-up for scum, that they do so for all scum, not just the politically correct scum.

[Little Ray]

There ain't nothin' wrong with the death penalty, but ya gotta keep an eye on them DAs and their idiot juries.

Also, a punishment has to be BOTH cruel AND unusual to be wrong - ain't nothin' unusual 'bout death. Happens to everybody at least once.

IN Tookie's case, however, the was not much of a question of guilt; nor was there in the case of Nixon. My gripe is that Tookie died much too easily. If he was in good shape and drug free they shoulda sent him to a hospital and cut him up for parts...