The execution of Paul Hill - convicted of killing an abortion doctor

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If he was sentenced to die then I'm totally in support of that.

Abortion is legal, murder is not.

We can't just have people running around with shotguns picking off unsuspecting people as they enter their workplaces because "God commanded them to."

I don't think that the point of capital punishment is to convince/teach the minister that "killing is wrong," rather I think it's society's way of saying, you're not worth keeping alive, your crime was that bad and it's that unlikely that you could be rehabilitated to become a productive, safe part of society.

I know that there are debates about whether the death penalty actually helps with deterrence, but maybe executing this guy will encourage other anti-abortion nuts to think twice before killing doctors. At least it makes the statement that the law won't be forgiving toward vigilantes who feel that they and their pet causes are above the law.