The death penalty

[Motorboat Cruiser]

First of all, thanks to everyone for your contributions to this thread. I have to be honest and admit to being disappointed that the discussion moved from the death penalty to abortion though. I really wanted to focus on the story in the OP a bit more.

I'm just as guilty as anyone though of injecting my own beliefs into threads that may, at times, be off-topic, just because I am passionate about them. It can be hard not to. All I suppose I can ask is that, if we continue this discussion, we try to get back to the original topic and refrain from flaming each other. It's an interesting topic and so many of you have made elequent contributions. I'd love to hear more opinions, even conflicting ones, as long as we try to keep focused.