[TidesHoss32]

OK, I have a question for you. And I know we are way off topic, but I have a serious question for anybody that opposes the death penalty. I worked 7 1/2 years in a Supermaximum security prison, and Ive dealt with these animals personally. But answer this question for me. I know nothing about you CO87, other than we disagree on coalmining. That doesnt by any means make you a bad person in my eyes at all, just we have a disagreement on a subject we consider serious. Now for my question. Say you have a family, because like I said, I dont know..but say you married your high school sweetheart, had two children. And some punk coward rapist breaks into your house. He molests both of your children before bashing both of them, screaming, to their deaths. He then rapes your wife, stabs her and beats her, screaming, to her death. Now, I use this because this is absolutely typical of what DIDNT get the death penalty. Im asking you, not being sarcastic, but how can you oppose the death penalty, when something like that happens to your family? I use my neice and nephew, because Im not married, nor do I have kids. But if someone hurt either of them, IF they escape me (which they wouldnt but anyways), I would want them dead immediately. Id want their time in hell to be served ASAP.

Tidehoss, I think you took DW's reply the wrong way. I don't believe he was wishing for you to die, just that he wonders what you would be feeling if you were sitting on death row knowing you're an innocent man. People just like to know that someone paid for the crime, even though it may not be the man/woman that committed it.

I don't believe that the death penalty is right, for a society that condemns murder, how is it ok for that societies government to do the same thing. When we punish a murderer to death, aren't we just as bad?

Now before you give me the typical "why do you hate justice, and the law", I don't, I believe some sort of punishment is deserved, but our justice systems needs to work on changing criminals, not locking them up for a while, and then releasing them.