[vanda]

I am totally and completely against the death penalty.

Being from Chicago,I have read of so many men convicted and later set free. To hear one man tell his story of them waking him up in the middle of the night and guards dragging him out of his bed telling him "it's time" and he's scared and the guards get a good laugh out of it is heart wrenching. Death is final. What if someone comes forward after someone has been wrongly executed? What can you do? There's no compensation for that. On the other hand, is there any rehabilitation out there for these kind of vicious criminals that are put on death row?

There's also the aspect of those that hand down the sentence are not the ones who are there to carry out the execution. I don't know how the warden at Texas' prisons sleep when they have so many back to back executions. I know it would mess with me for a long while after one but two or three in one week?

I think every state should take a long hard look at their system and find new means to solve this problem.