I'm against the death penalty because it's expensive as all -blam!- and is applied unevenly with minorities being targeted more than whites. And all of this is on top of the fact that there are some prosecutors who like to speed it along for a quick resolution, no matter how factually wrong it is. Case in point: Texas executing a retard. It's not mentioned here, but it was in my local paper yesterday, but there was no weapon found in his wife's murder, no witnesses, nothing. But, there's a but Mad Max, I am for the death penalty under certain circumstances. People like Adam Lanza should have been executed post haste. Clearly guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt, he will either spend his life in a mental ward or in a jail cell. Save all of our time, and money, and kill the mother-blam!-er.