I don't know .. I am having trouble articulating my thoughts and forming my own solid opinion. Having been put through the justice system I know how easily things can be overlooked. Maybe what I am trying to say, is that better investigating into each case is needed before a ruling is made. It all costs money though. How does one weigh that out? I agree that a rapist should pay dearly fro that crime. A drug dealer should be tried for murder in an OD case. A murderer who makes a cold calculated decision to commit that crime should ultimately pay with their life. what I am asking is how that conclusion is drawn? Who should live and who should die?

Cat~ The criminal justice system in this country is very, very flawed.

The only way I can look at it is from a societal standpoint first. The safety of our society, the economic interests of our society, and the spectrum of the quality of the counsel which defendants receive...(which I believe is unfair). etc.

There was a man executed here in Alabama yesterday. He had been on death row for 26 years.

this is why i like texas,, if you have done something really wrong,, and its proven beyond the shadow of any doubt,, you dont sit on death row for years,, you are fast tracked to a needle in the arm,,,,,