And who will punish the state for this willful act of premeditate murder? If I were a believer I'd say God. Instead it's up to the conscientious among us to abolish this barbaric relic from our midst.

So-called conservatives and evangelicals everywhere can now claim we are safer. I can't believe how safe they have made us! To paraphrase their proud leader W, that's the deepest thought of all. "I can't think of a deeper thought than that."

Ignorant fools, paranoid cowards, and self-righteous asshats.

Ah, but the evidence suggests that the person who killed Lt. Oliver has not been executed and that the weapon that did is still capable of injuring/killing unintended victims.

Sadly Hildegard is right. This was true in New Hampshire too where Democratic Governor Jeanne Shaheen vetoed an abolition bill passed by the Republican legislature. The anti-death penalty is starting to see some interesting cross-party convergence, especially evangelical Christians start to question the practice in ways unimaginable 20 years ago. Pat Robertson has even called for a national moratorium on it. And the Catholic Church has become 100% abolitionist under both Pope John Paul and Benedict XVI. When conservative Christians start to oppose the death penalty, it's time that a coalition of liberals and conservatives work together and get rid of this obvious insult to the "culture of life."

Except it's not a partisan issue.

Um, I was taking the remark out of context and making a (poorly framed, apparently) joke.

Well, and I can't help but recall the time that Bill Clinton, campaigning in 1992, rushed home to Arkansas to make sure a retarded man got his measure of justice...

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Georgia's in Florida, dumbass!