I remember reading an article about the death penalty that I found rather revealing. I thought it was about an anti-capital punishment organization who finally realized they were fighting a losing battle, and just gave up.
It turns out to be a collection of lawyers, judges and law professors who supported the death penalty and were trying to create a standard for it's application.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420634/posts
From the article:
"Things will look different come September", Professor Gross said.
“Law students who take first-year criminal law from 2010 on,” he said, “will learn that this same group of smart lawyers and judges — the ones whose work they read every day — has said that the death penalty in the United States is a moral and practical failure.”
The disconnect between the people who live in the real world and the ones who exist in some sort of “hypothetical universe” is astonishing.
The people who have commented on this thread recognize, with great clarity, evil. And are unambiguous about what needs to be done.
The Free Republic link still has an active link to the original NYTimes article.
Gotta add sickening to that, if I may.
You kill 'em. Anyone with a disabled person in the family knows that innocence shouldn't be tortured and killed for just being a 'friend'. The perps, after being found guilty, deserve to die. Now.