Spawmyluv, that is some of the finest writing I've ever read. Thanks darlin'. Mooh, very, very good points, thanks to you, too.

DougeR, I am sorry I didn't get a chance to post this earlier. It must have been and probably still is very painful to live with your mother-in-law having been murdered. Thank you for sharing that with us. I am sorry for the tragedy. I also have to say, for all that I wish to abolish the death penalty to protect anyone who may possibly be innocent, if faced with what you have experienced and if they had found the person and knew beyond all doubt that person was the murderer, I think I would have a very hard time not wanting them put to death. I like to think that my beliefs which go mostly along the lines of Buddha, would help me through something so painful, but, as Spaw said, we are not that far from the tree, and the high emotions and feeling of impotence I know I would feel, would probably take over and I would want stark revenge.

kat