[cowhead]

perhaps my least popular opinion (if we're talking even remotely about something that might actually come to pass) is that, IF we're going to have the death penalty and claim that it's a deterrent to violent crime... then the executions ought to be done in public, and not in any particularly 'humane' way, not torture mind you, but something painful, quick and gruesome. ie. guillotine, hanging, firing squad etc.