Aw, come on Bridge. I never find your comments offensive. Total bollocks from time to time but never offensive... Anyway, I bet I agreed with you before you agreed with me, so there.

Jack's assurances may be well intended, but run contrary to the stance that a court would have no preconditions. Yeah, sorry Jack, judicial murder. I love The USA, spend quite a bit of time over there and have many friends. I also note that millions of US citizens are concerned by the use of murder as a punishment. But their embarrassment doesn't alter my stance that in many ways, The USA is not yet a fit place to try people for serious crimes.

It is not about innocent people being killed, it is killing by the state in any circumstance that is repulsive, repugnant and perhaps my new best friend can find another word beginning with R? I seem to have run out of the hyperbole referred to by Jack.