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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.

Well said Coach! These "Me First, Screw everyone else" philosophers are a dying breed and that's why they're so angry. People that believe the way we do vastly outnumber the backwards thinking people in this debate. The reason we get outnumbered on the poll is simply because this is a board for an area that has been historically dependent on Coal. As you pointed out earlier. Coal jobs are becoming an endangered species. First it was strip mining then mountaintop removal.
Remember what John Prine said when he wrote.
"Then the Coal company came with the worlds largest shovel and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land. They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken and they wrote it all down as the progress of man."

We will prevail coach, and they'll just get angry.