And there hangs my point. I slipped in the step brother bit, (wholly true but totally irrelevant) to see if you were thinking rationally or not.

And you are not.

And if you killed anybody with your bare hands, we have prisons to deal with such people.

And your less than objective view is a sad consequence of the issue of drugs. Although I hold no grudge against the people (long dead now) who ran the corner shop near us and supplied my Dad with his Woodbine, they did supply him his fax after all. Even after watching him die of lung cancer, I limit myself to donating to Ash, getting involved in public health initiatives and supporting the move to drive tobacco even further from the respectable mainstream.

What I didn't do was try to make people feel inadequate on a forum such as this. It doesn't become you. I don't know what PC horse shit is, apart from where I confront it. I have a dictionary so I know what "preach" means. It is something I don't do. I do know one thing though, and this relates to the thread we are on...

Punishment is best delivered cold, by objective people who don't have emotions running high, and that is why we have judges, juries and magistrates. Justice is not delivered by those looking for blame for their own situation. (Also why politicians would best serve their electorate by limiting themselves to delivering laws in abstract rather than either interfere or try to take credit for the actions of courts.)

And I am right too.... Whether that makes two of us, well I can bow my head in acknowledgement when someone says a criminal should hang, when the person saying it is speaking from the heart and not the head, but if anybody in sober reflection feels capital punishment is a suitable tool for society, then my opinion of them drops a peg or three.

I am having a very nice day, thanks.