The first tennent of medicine ~ First do no harm.

I guess I can see your point of view, after all, if the bastard who had killed my brother had been strung up, he wouldn't have been able to kill another teenager some years later in the same way (with a car - he was a taxi driver and pleaded loss of livelihood if they took his license).

BUT.... as Tolkien put it, some who live deserve death, but many who die deserved life, who are we to decide?

[By the bye, I was thinking of the little bags we used at school, for games.... they really did hurt when you got Seamus Mullarkey's right arm behind it.... didn't think of the big bean bag chair, but having put my back out struggling to get out of one, I can see the possibilities...)

LTS