I am pro-death penalty but once in a while a death penalty story will pull at my heartstrings..especially if the person being put to death is mentally disabled. But I think most people that are executed are rightly done so. It's just not a perfect system. I remember one poster saying that the its fair to execute someone if the executor gets killed at the same time. My grandfather worked in the prison system way back when Canada still had the death penalty. His job was to take the body down after it had been hung. He was an immigrant from Scotland and it was that job or starve. He ended up working his way up in the system, but that was the only job he could find to feed his family when they first got to Canada. He never talked about it and he passed when I was 9, but I'm sure he hated his job. I don't think the executioner was any worse. It was his job. We don't know what it was like to starve like these people, and to take a job, as lousy as it was, over watching our kids starve and go without clothes or shoes, or shelter. I wouldn't like it if I was the one who put the needle in, or the one that turned the i.v. on..but it is a job..and as they say, someone has to do it.
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