Although I am an opponent of the death penalty, I think this was the wrong decision.

Why? Because it enshrines barbarism in our legal system. By saying that the death penalty is not warranted unless the victim of the crime was also killed, the justices have defined our legal system as an instrument not of justice but of vengeance.

Justice is the protection of the weak, and the assurance that wrongs, once committed, will not be repeated. Justice should not spring from vindictive passion, but instead from a love for all those in society.

Our legals system is there to protect us from henious individuals who menace society, not to torture them for our own sadistic satisfaction.

If we merely revisit their own crimes back on them, we are not just, but savage, not civilized but barbaric.

Thank you for this clip, and most important your open comment in re to the content.

I see this situation through the same pair of eyes that you view through. Uncertain of what we are able to do going forward to ensure this type of ruthless behavior is not an illness seen throughout the world.