[okie01]

"If each state was allowed to decide whether or not the death penalty was legal the crime in those states where it wasn't would dramatically rise."

Uh, each state has already been allowed to decide whether or not the death penalty is legal. Some got it. Some don't.

And no pansy-ass "43 member countries from the European continent" are going to tell Texas how to run its justice system.

[marajade]

So tell me in which state is the death penalty illegal?