I wasn't refering to my Utah system, I was refering to the ideal American system. Utah is very conservative, and one on my very few liberal veiws include the death penalty.
Second how do you equate not killing a person to condoning what they do? Why can't we use other methods other than death? Death has a two-fold downside, whereas it cannot ever be undone, and it accomplishes nothing except revenge.
You continue to use you're emotional trump card, and I don't see much worth in it. I can just as easily say that there could be a family trying to help someone in their family because he's done some really bad things. But he is sentenced to death, and is killed leaving behind a broken down family, and nothing is better for it.
This is the part that disturbs me. Are you saying that people are born a certain way and can never be anyhting different. So everything that society traditional believed in such as disipline is crap? I'm sure that the vast majoridy of people are capible of change on some level, and of compasion, and if someone is not then it still is not in any way justifiable just to kill them.
You're reasoning is just to kill people because they are bad people. So if someone is bad, the answer is the kill them. I see that as an atrocity, I think whoever would do that is in fact, a very bad person.