Death penalty? Why are you people going on about the death penalty, as if due process of law exists any more? Here's your process of law:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans police lined up "like at a firing range" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/18/nopd.shooting/

Hopefully a lot more people will start coming forward now. The mercenaries and cops are rumored to have killed many, many people this way in New Orleans. Just target practice. And now we have the gun-hating Democrats coming in to office. Great. Grab all the guns.

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1,500,000 people were killed by their own government.

In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, 20,000,000 people were killed by their own government.

China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20,000,000 people were killed by their own government.

Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13,000,000 people were killed by their own government.

Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 people were killed by their own government.

Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 people were killed by their own government.

Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, 1,000,000 people were killed by their own government.

Governments that torture, kill and try to disarm can't be trusted. Buy guns. And ammo.