Jacko
The death penalty debate is usually conducted between the supporters and the opposers. But there is a third category: those of us who feel that the death penalty should never have been done away with in the first place (and I don't feel that this point of view places me at any particular position in the intelligence spectrum). However, I am not sure that we could re-introduce it now, as some States in the USA have done, but I can't help concluding that today's crime figures would be an awful lot lower if we still had it. This means that I am with Training in part, although not so frantically so (and I don't feel that this point of view puts me at any particular position in the political spectrum). The current police philosophy is 'We can't do anything until something has happened', and I have had this mantra quoted at me in the past. Where does that leave the citizen?