I do find it interesting that the "answer" to the problem in a lot of people's minds is to make a life sentence truly a life sentence. Few if any have offered a solution to the problem that all of those additional "lifers" would create. The financial burden, the space problem, and the possibility that the real murderer could potentially escape and do again what he/she is spending time in jail for. How many of us are alive today because the death penalty kept a murderer from killing again. We'll never know. The issue of having someone go to their death for a crime they didn't commit? I wish I had the answer for that. I agree that if you kill none of them you can't kill an innocent person. But how many innocent "persons" wil die at the hands of a repeat murderer? It's my humble opinion that if we decide we can solve the problem be making life mean life, then we are all being a bit naive.

Frank