I'm fully in favour of the death penalty. What better way to stop anyone reofending, and what a powerful statement to make about your system - "Our society will not stand for this. If you do this, we will end your life. No if's or but's. You have placed yourself so far beyond what we consider acceptable behaviour and shown so little disregard for the lives of others that we believe you have surrenderred your rights to live".

Of couse, what I - and I'm sure I'm not alone - distrust in the system is the people making the decisions: there are too many biases there for me to feel entirely comfortable that they legitimitly believe they have the right criminal, and not simply the right skin colour, ethnicity or belief system. That problem is linked into a huge amount of other things slightly out of the scope of this entry and comment.

I don't consider any of those unreasonable statements to make, I am interested in hearing what you hadtocut from this entry though :)