[McGavin999]

David, I find it very commendable that you have such respect for human life that even the lost souls are of value to you. I assume that you are very active in the pro-life movement as well since I'm sure that abortion would be an abomination to someone who values life so much that you are willing to fight for the life of killers.

You are of course, welcome to your opinion, but here in the US we tend to believe that a person is responsible for their actions. We don't merely execute people who have murdered someone, those are the people who usually receive life sentences. We reserve the death penalty for those who have murdered in such a heineous manner to be beyond belief. The shortening of the appeal process is due to the fact that we now have DNA available.

If you find the death penalty so repugnant, you can live in one of the countries who do not allow the death penalty. We don't condemn them, and frankly, they shouldn't condemn us. That's why we live here, and they live there. This would be a much nicer world if everyone would keep their noses planted firmly in their own business.

[David Hunter]

David, I find it very commendable that you have such respect for human life that even the lost souls are of value to you.

As I said above its the innocent people who are executed that I'm concerned about.

We reserve the death penalty for those who have murdered in such a heineous manner to be beyond belief.

How can you ever be sure that you have caught the perpetrator? Isn't life imprisonment just as effective at removing someone from society?

The shortening of the appeal process is due to the fact that we now have DNA available.

Do you think that DNA evidence isn't open to tampering like any other evidence. For example, the way blood was planted by the Police during O. J. Simpson's murder investigation.

If you find the death penalty so repugnant, you can live in one of the countries who do not allow the death penalty.

I do, I live in England.