I can understand Aimee's position. I just don't trust the justic system to be that good. and only get the bad guys.

I don't trust it all that much, either. There are too many places that have a hard on for just executing in a feeble attempt at getting other would-be criminals to Stop Being Bad People. Well, that doesn't work, we know it.

The death penalty is unfair and disproportionate as currently practiced. I can't support that, but yet I think there are offenses heinous enough that maybe people should die.

I don't support the death penalty, but I have a feeling that I might feel the same way as Aimee if I had a baby. Hell, I nearly feel that way just being an adopted Auntie.

Have a headache. Have taken drugs. Going to bed now. Lost pronouns.

And now for something completely different.

I am watching the recent Family Guy...the one where the guys become the A-Team. OMG. Dying over here.

The death penalty is unfair and disproportionate as currently practiced. I can't support that, but yet I think there are offenses heinous enough that maybe people should die.

I'm with erika. I think some crimes mean you forfeit your life. I don't have a problem with a government exercising life-or-death decisions since the gov't does that every day in multiple ways. I think the polis has the right to make that decision.

However, there is a lot evidence which makes it clear that the system as it currently exists is very racist and classist. Consequently, I'm okay with the death penalty in principle but not as it is practiced in our country.

I'm also completely against the death penalty for a number of reasons but on a gut level want certain fuckers dead.

That gut thing is part of why I'm against it, however, since I think the courts should be about justice and not vengance (even when the fucker deserves it).

The death penalty is unfair and disproportionate as currently practiced. I can't support that, but yet I think there are offenses heinous enough that maybe people should die.

DH and I just had this conversation last night. There's currently a case in Ohio where a guy is going to be executed for a murder there is a good chance he didn't commit. It doesn't make the guy any less of a scumbag--he did acknowledge killing someone else, but he was never charged with that crime. This one has very specific and real doubts.

I'm sort of torn because I recognize the human drive for revenge and the desire to essentially take a life for a life. BUT intellectually, the system is imperfect and isn't applied fairly, resulting in the possibility of executing an innocent person.

Personally, I don't support the death penalty. But I get really shaky in my convictions when it's a heinous crime like the rape and murder of a child.

It's more about the ugly side of human nature and I don't like to contemplate that too often.

Consequently, I'm okay with the death penalty in principle but not as it is practiced in our country.

This is me. Except that the only way I would trust the death penalty would becomplety fair is if I felt the people administering it were completely fair. Which in fact means that really I would only trust me and a panel of people I trusted, personally. And I am not willing to take that responsibility, so I am in actaulity, anti-death penalty.

This makes me think of my poor cow-orkers wife who got booed off the stage at an anti-war event in my city because she represented a Catholic women's anti-abortion, anti-death penalty, anti-war group, which seems to me a perfectly logical position, if one I don't agree with.