Where we do not agree is what we consider the capital punishement for the criminal. You say that killing... oups... execution is the capital punishement. I say that it's life sentence with no chance of liberation ever is the capital punishement. If I were a criminal and I was given the choice between execution and life sentence, I would choose execution. Clean, fast and mostly pain free.

>The reason you see it as a paradox is because you and others who beleive the way you do see exeuction as killing when it's not. It's administration of justice. It's simply giving someone a level of punishment above all others. In most cases, the punishmet fits the crime, and to do less is in insult to the victims and their families.
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>Consider this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33410779/ns/today-today_people/
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>Would you lock this person up? I bet you this person was a known sex offender, meaning he had probably already spent time in prison, and has decided not to change. This kind of thing is commonplace - where a criminal has been to jail one or mroe times for committing a crime, and did it again, this time killing someone. There needs to be a punishment for these type of people that is beyond a mere jail sentence.