A judge passing a death sentence is not doing it as an individual, he is doing it in the name of the society he has a legal and moral commitment to protect.

Oh, that's OK then. I guess that excuses the Iraqi judges deciding they needed protecting against the Kurds or the German SS deciding it was for the good of society that they Jews had to go?

Would the British government be right on excecuting convicted IRA bombers? Ask in an Orange bar in Belfast and I suspect you would get a very different answer from the regulars at O'Flanigans in New York. (I guess there is such a place!)

Keep trying though. Interesting arguments.

Cheers

DtG