I agree with you entirely. Murder is not an option at anytime or anyplace. I can hardly judge another person to die when I have trouble picking out an outfit. I certainly am angry at the man who violently raped my sister when she was 12  and I am certain that she committed suicide 8 years later because of the stigma attached and the trauma of the ordeal. The rape occurred in 1969. But I couldn’t murder him nor even think of captial punishment. He did die a horrible death the same year as my sister, but he died from cancer.

But let’s suppose that murdering him was a just option. Would his family then not be equally entitled to the same just option? This murdering mindset is exactly why we have families in the USA burying their young men and women who went to fight in Iraq. The middle east is in the mess it is in because the culture there condones an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.

I am overwhelmingly ashamed for my country that it can even ask such a question even within the parameters it was stated here. I am aghast that some of the women I have admired and respected are even considering it at all. Have we learned nothing?

Well said Miss Manners!  Very funny!  And completely true!  

 And to S. A.  What you wrote was very well said, and I totally get what you’re saying, but I hate the man that attacked your sister and I would have no problem in murdering him if he weren’t already dead.  None at all.  As the Mother of two young daughters, I could easily take the life of someone that would attack them, and still sleep soundly at night!