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To be completely honest I can't quite decide how I feel about the death penalty.
Of course I agree that the waiting and the inhumane way it is carried out should be defined as torture and is therefore wrong but I can also see where taxpayers are coming from when they say they don't want to pay for murderers and rapists to live.
I would like to be able to say that I am against the death penalty but I know that if someone were to rape or murder someone close to me I would not be able to help myself wishing them dead so I don't feel I can.

Excellent. I do not 'want to join them'. Instead of spending money executing often innocent people, we should be trying to find out why people do what they do and try to prevent the problems that cause it. It is said that the majority of such crimes is within families, why? What makes children kill? It is horrendous that we torture people and their families by keeping people on death row often for decades. Are we any better than them for allowing it?

A very simple and yet powerful argument for the abolition of the death penalty. I would like to see that broadcast around the world on all television stations and shown the leaders of every country.

The US is supposed to be the most developped country in the world and yet it's statistics on the death penalty bring it into line with Dickensian Britain and revolutionary France. Come on Obama! Sort this out and make a real difference in your first year in office!

Got to support this one! Waste-ful state-legalised murder of minors often means that adult criminals get away scot-free and tradgedies are dealt out to innocent families.

Absolutely spot on.

We need more celebrities to support Amnesty International and to create more awareness of human rights issues. Thank you, Jeremy.