Great just what we need to get rid of. Maybe they can resort back to punishing them by hangings or chopping their heads off. Now Americans get to spend more of their money on keeping these imbeciles alive to sit in a prison and watch tv and do nothing for the rest of their lives. Nuke them.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/18/death.penalty.decline/index.html

A day after New Jersey banned executions, newly released figures show that capital punishment dropped this year to a 13-year low.

1 of 2 Forty-two people have been put to death this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a Washington-based group that opposes the practice. That figure is down 57 percent from what it was in 1999, when 98 inmates were executed.

Next year's figures are expected to drop further. The Supreme Court is to hold oral arguments January 7 about whether lethal injection protocols in 36 of the 37 states with the death penalty are constitutional.

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The Supreme Court on January 4 will decide whether to review an appeal from Louisiana inmate Patrick Kennedy, sentenced to death in 2003 for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter. The state's high court upheld the punishment as appropriate.
[color="Blue"]He should get his head blown off. I am more for long lasting pain and torture than just a quick zap and you are dead. These child molesters should be tortured severly. Cut off all their limbs slowly, maybe cut an inch or two into the leg wait for an hour do it again, and so on. But no their sentences are 'watch tv for the rest of your life.'

The justices in 1976 banned capital punishment for rape, but 19 years later, Louisiana passed a law allowing execution for the sexual violation of a child under 12. State lawmakers distinguished the earlier high court case as pertaining only to "adult women."

[color="Blue"]What about men who get raped? That is ok?