"different standards are demanded by the doo·gooders,"
Now there's a telling phrase (though I prefer the correct spelling do- gooders - those who try to do good)
For me, the opposite has always been 'do badders' happy to have the 'insult' hurled at me any time.
This seems to be one of those discussion in which opinions that are presented 'seeing both sides of the argument' gradually reveal themselves to have been firmly on one side from the start
We have been here before, I seem to remember, when we discussed whether it was right to execute someone who was regarded by the law as being a child.
My opinion remains now as it was then, whatever the crime (in that case, the horrific murder of a child, Jamie Bulger, by two older children) the taking of any life is wrong, ritual killing by the State is a reminder of our primitive past - long may it remain such.
And still no comment on the tsunami of deaths of innocent people that would have taken place had Capital Punishment been operative thirty years ago.
Jim Carroll