[Melas]

This is a disgrace he should have been axed not put to sleep.

I will never understand this sickness that some FReepers bring to these execution threads. I find it disturbing when the good guys are as depraved as the bad guys.

[The KG9 Kid]

Point taken, but it's not the criminal that elicits the emotions you're reading. It's the debate over the issue of capital punishment.

I think that it's not so much a celebration of a criminal's demise, but another 'victory' (if you will) over the anti-capital punishment activists.

It's their way of insulting them back.