[Uncle Hal]

The libs are desperately trying to get the death penalty nullified. But Polls show strong support for the death penalty. I remember there was a poll a while back that showed support for the death penalty had gone up. The libs had a hard time explaining that away.

[No Dems 2004]

I'm not convinced by these arguments. America is still executing fewer people each year than it's sentencing, meaning that the total death row population is increasing.

That corrupted RINO gov of Illinois was one incident. Legislatures in both MD and NC have rejected moratoriums recently. Already 44 people have been executed this year and there seems set to be quite a lot more. Many or most of the states that don't have the DP (e.g. Wisconsin and Minnesota and possibly even Massachusetts) would bring it back if they had enough legislative or gubernatorial support for it.

The bottom line is: why must taxpayers pay to keep some filthy, vile person - who brutally murdered his fellow-man - alive for the rest of his life? No way. If you examine each of the executions this year, for instance, you'll realize that sympathy is not an option for these type of offenders. Put simply, they're not being executed for jaywalking or shoplifting (but rather for gruesome child-murder, brutal armed robberies, rape&murder, etc, etc - the kind of stuff that the general public just won't feel sorry for someone die for.)

[OldPossum]

Folks, folks, this is a Reuters article. Consider the source.