What I want to know is this: how can a country - a modern, free democracy - ever justify the death sentence as a means of punishment. We live in a modern world with an intelligent and understanding society, this stuff should not be happening... we've progressed beyond the stone age, people.

Society can now afford to deal with people appropriatley and in other ways than simply killing them. Killing a serial killer is not justifiablre and does not achieve anything, and that's not even taking into account the fact that it is possible you may kill an innocent person.

It kind of makes me angry when a country like America can claim to be 'god's country' or a land of the free and for democracy, when it's justice system still resorts to something as vulgar and unthinking as execution.