It is more expensive for the State to kill someone than to keep them in maximum security lock up for 45 years (which is way longer than most people survive in prison). If an innocent man is killed is that a good use of your tax dollars? http://www.innocenceproject.org/ Stringer's childish rant is typical of the American right wing: As long as it's not me, fuck 'em. That any person's life can be reduced to a cash value (he's in prison so he's worhtless) is a sad comment on the inhumanness of the right wing. I believe the Nazis calculated the worth of their prison labor in a similar fashion. Also, are you aware that the more harsh punishment becomes in a given State, the worse the crime rate becomes? Murder rates are highest where the State murders its citizens. The single greatest correlation with lower crime rates is social and economic parity. I think I said this before but a HUGE chunk of the American populace is morally, mentally, and philosphically slightly less advanced than an angry 13 year old boy with bad skin. "Eye for an eye" is a great example of simplistic, vindictive thinking. Don't know how to get my fellow citizens to grow up. ____________________ www.psychicreform.com ____________________ "Political criticism is our enemies' best friend." Bernard Kerik incoming Director of Homeland Security, New York Newsday, 10/20/2003 "Let no one mention the questionableness of a military success against France!" - Hitler - Mein Kampf