>Personally I have felt on a couple of occasions that someone who has committed crimes so despicable as to be abhorrent should die by the same means they employed on others. I think any parent could imagine wanting that for anyone who committed any of those acts on their own child. Generally though I do agree with Kofi Annan:
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>"The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process. And I believe that future generations, throughout the world, will come to agree."
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Of course, "one human being to inflict it on another" implies that the individual ("inflictee") in question meets minimum requirements to be considered a human being.