Troll yer full of hyberbole there. We hear plenty about victims. Since we have a provincial election going on, our rightwing premier just had a public meeting with "police and victims of crime".

Victim stories are great copy. Especially if they are middle or (most rarely) upper-class victims. If they're the usual hookers and Indians you won't hear much about them. I don't think that's because they don't have good stories, it's because they are a little more complicated than yer conservative mindset cares to get involved in.

That's right, capital punishment is more expensive than life imprisonment, because an extensive appeals process involves a lot of high-priced lawyers. (Or at least it should, the notion that this means the appeals process should be "streamlined" leads directly to killing more innocent people).

One thing more. Some people who have committed terrible crimes can and do change over time, and some can't. This "life without parole, period" line isn't very observant of real life circumstances. Isn't it enough to take away someone's productive adult life, if they can gradually come to an understanding that we were put here to help each other? Elsewise, how likely are any of them to come to that understanding?      

Willie-O