Then again, maybe in the right cases, the death penalty should be allowed

[Louis VI the Fat]

I hear you, Don. I know what you're saying, where you're coming from. Don't really know what to make of all this at times myself. I want blood too. Then again, humanitarian values, a civilised judicial system, and one's own morality, are not tested by small scale tax evading yet otherwise decent citizens, but by brutal acts of horror.

I don't know. Maybe we are the better people for not torturing these men to death in public in reatiliation. Maybe we are stupid for not doing so.
I don't have it in me to stand up for them, or for our judicial system in the face of such horrors, nor do I actively support more brutality in our system. In the end, I simply mentally retract myself. Some things are more than I can bear.

[English assassin]

They clearly think they'll get a free ride, even if they get caught.

IMHO this is where the argument breaks down. I just don't believe anyone thinks to himself, I'll abduct a woman from in front of her children, repeatedly rape her, then shoot her and bury her in a shallow grave, because if I'm caught I'll only get life in jail, but heck, if it was the death penalty, I'll just stay home. I really don't think this sort of behaviour is the result of some sort of cost benefit analysis.

Does King deserve to live? No. Should we kill him? Different question.

I'm sorry, I know most of the Orgahs are thoroughly modern and disaffected by such stories, and it's cool to be blase',

Straw man, DC.