The death penalty is a violation on our born given human rights. It also gives the Government a feeling as if they are God - Which they shouldn't have. If someone has committed murder then they should serve their time and not be sent to death as well. For them to actually know what it feels like to have your life, as you know it, taken away. This way they are living with it daily rather than having an "easy" escape.

Cleo Lindo, Mitcham, London, United Kingdom

I Bleieve the death penity is svery wrong and is very bad. Do you really thik that god wants us to do this. NO. He stated" forgive everyone of their wrong".

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Kevin Goss

Kevin Goss, Milltown, Indiana

Lethal injection is state sanction murder and if the victim of this regains conciousness as generally nonphysicians are administering this he/she will be paralyzed by the second drug and feel a massive fatal heart attack from the third drug and be unable to speak or cry out in pain. How sadistic is that. That is a torture murder. How can any "free" nation kill its prisoners trapped in its cells? Why do the vast majority of the nation's citizens remain passively mute on this? Imagine yourself in that convict's shoes strapped to that gurney and you are a citizen of this state and they are doing this to you with a viewing audience. Imagine yourself as the "clerk" pushing the levers of the chemicals after trying to stick a needle in veins? Is it macaroni and cheese or fried ham for dinner tonight? What have we become to even have to debate this?

Brian Stewart, los angeles, USA