[Languor]

This topic is aimed mainly towards the Americans here, but Euros feel free to answer too.

I just got done watching a story on 60 Minutes about a prisoner in New England who's been on Death Row for 20 years but has still not been executed. Now he's asking to be killed, but various public defenders are fighting to prevent the exeuction and, so far, are succeeding. The man raped and killed 4 teenage girls. So this prompted the question of what you guys think about the death penalty. I'm pretty sure that most, if not all (?), European countries have purged the death penalty from the law books (I think...?) so the U.S. remains as one of, if not the, only Western nation that still practices the death penalty.

Personally, I used to be for it, but now I'm not sure... I'm sort of indifferent now. As far as the story with the guy goes, I think that if he's competent (which it has been found that he is), and it's what he wants, then it should be done. So what do you guys think? For? Against? And what about the story with this guy? The execution has been stayed for 30 days (he was supposed to be killed this morning), so the public defenders have a little time. But is it right what they're doing?

Interested in your thoughts...