What should be eligible for the death penalty?

[fabsroman]

"I do imagine that he would agree that the death penalty isn't too much."

Andy,

The problem with the death penalty is that it is the ultimate penalty, and there is no correcting it once you find out that it was the wrong penalty. I think we have had this discussion before on this forum about how over 40 inmates were on death row in Illinois and through DNA testing the state was able to figure out that they weren't guilty. As I stated back then, I believe that the death penalty is warranted in some situations, but not all, and whether or not the sexual conduct warrants it depends on the degree. Maryland has 4 degrees of sexual crimes, with the 4th degree being a sexual touching. The word sodomy is used very loosely in many different circumstances, so I tend to not go by it. To elaborate more about this would go a little too far on this board.

If my 14 year old daughter were the victim, I would definitely want to kill the person. Heck, if my daughter were killed in a car ACCIDENT, I would want to kill the other driver, or in the alternative, if she were a passenger, I would want to kill all drivers involved. If my 14 year old daughter were punched in the face by some punk, I would want him dead.

That is the good thing about our society, they don't allow the victim to make that decision. Otherwise, people would be dying for a lot less than anything we've talked about on this board.