http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18401787

Wow. Just wow. I'll have to have a lie down now.

I cannot say I condone state-sanctioned killing in most forms.  Too many mistakes

are made there is just too much inconsistency of appication to make the current "justice"

system as practiced in the Western World anything but a travesty.  Yet some jurisdictions

(not mentioning any names) allow state sponsored execution to persist in spite of this.

The reason is rationalised as those who get executed somehow deserve it anyway....

The Fools couldn't afford the right lawyer.  Then we run into cases like this where the

official policy is to take the guy alive and bring him to trial.  This is almost as senseless.

The follow up with the dad being able to sue from another country and being supported

by the French legal system just shows how completely dysfunctional the whole thing has gotten.

In the jusrisdiction bordering my own, Montana, there is a fellow Albertan on death row for murder.

There is a continual ruckus going on because the Canadian government will not intervene on his behalf.

He has admitted to mudering two young men because he wanted their car and he wondered what it

would feel like.  He has stated he wants to be extradited to Canada because we do not have the

death penalty any more and he could some day be let out of prison because of Canadian law.

Montana has been reluctant to off the guy because he is not an American.

What The Hell Is Going On? I am thinking of suing the Mounties because I was upset when they hauled

off my neighbour down the street (a well known drug dealer, welcome to modern suburbia) in cuffs.

cheers