If this can even post that's a minor miracle. Not like I really want to leap into this debate, listening to Americans kicking capital punishment around seems to be along the lines of "how many times should we kill him?"

Hey--THE GUY HAD A COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT DEFENSE.

Unlike Paul Bernardo, who is an intelligent, white Canadian psychopath who will hopefully spend the rest of his life in Her Majesty's Prison For Lifers. (And few will cry if they find him with his head in a toilet bowl tomorrow morning.) He had some very good lawyers.

For every Paul Bernardo, though, there seem to be several Stephen Truscotts, Donald Marshall Jrs and Guy Paul Morins. (Innocent men who were convicted of murder in Canada. Truscott was sentenced to death at the age of 14 in the late 50's, sentence later commuted, he is still trying to clear his name.)

A state that kills mentally incompetent persons, at all, but most especially when it does so without giving them the benefit of proper legal representation, is not civilized.

Sorry folks, that's barbaric.

W-O