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br> Calgary /p> p> What infuriates me is the "costs more to execute" argument. The left loves that one, except they miss an obvious point: if the ridiculous appeals process were changed it wouldn't cost more. And if these really guilty, really heinous criminals were put to death, perhaps the death penalty would be a deterrent to violent crimes. I have a feeling, like most of the repeat offenders of all crimes realize, that the system is a joke, and true punishment almost never fits the crime. Why isn't it a deterrent? Because these really bad guys always get to appeal their way out of the ultimate punishment they deserve. br> -- William H. Stewart br> Boston, Massachusetts /p> p> In some ways I have come to regard life in prison without parole as worse than Death Penalty Lite (lethal injection). The only hope is that recipients of this sentence get a small cell. No TV, no books, no magazines, no correspondence, no visitors, no variety in their food, no work or activities and no possessions, nothing but day after day spent in crushing boredom and meaninglessness. Some of the compassionate existentialists might call this a death penalty, of sorts. br> -- Robert Gaber /p>

My heart goes out to the families of the victims of Gary Ridgway in Seattle. The justice system has failed the families, the victims and the community in which he terrorized for years. Is it not ironic that we rely on the prison population- the very criminal element that we put behind bars for heinous acts, to set things right with these poor unfortunate victims? Gary Ridgway, like Jeffrey Dahmer will not last long in prison. It leaves a foul taste in my mouth that the dregs of society has to do what should be done by the judicial system in America today.

p>The Democrats that are currently trying to block the judge appointments (of highly qualified individuals I might add) in Washington are responsible for this. When are Americans going to wake up and take the power from these egomaniacs? While the people are sleeping, the "ins" are slowing eroding the moral fabric of this great nation. Our forefathers are tossing and turning in their graves today. If only they good speak.....

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