I am against the death penalty.

To expand - no one deserves to die no matter their crime.

Hmmm...wonder if you'd still say that if they killed somebody you love.

Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument - CNN.com

Ohio does not serve a "last meal," as death-row inmates are given the opportunity to eat breakfast before a scheduled execution, Carson told CNN. But on Monday night, she said, Cooey ate a "special meal" consisting of a T-bone steak, hash browns, french fries, four eggs over easy, onion rings, four pieces of toast, a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, Mountain Dew and bear claw pastries. He did not eat breakfast Tuesday, Carson said.

Oh geez...

Anybody who's against the death penalty might not want to read this.....

First things first.....I didn't exactly know what that guy had done before, but after reading it, there were a few things that came to my mind....

So, it was apparently cruel to execute him because of his weight....well, I have an idea. How about bread, water and hard labour for 12 hours a day, instead of feeding him up over 20 years or something? That would have saved some taxpayers money as well!

They could also have forgotten about the injection, and have gone for the 'what goes around, comes around' approach - stick him in a room with some 500 lbs guys and let him get raped, stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Maybe with a nice X carved into his fat belly, just for nostalgic reasons. And just to give him a taste of what 'cruel' really means.

As far as I am concerned, the guy got off lightly. And why in the world did they keep him around for 20+ years anyway? If they'd gotten rid off him 20 years ago, he wouldn't have had the chance to get fat in the first place....just a thought.

Yepp, touchy subject. Very touchy indeed. And I admit, I might have an extreme view on this, but can you really read that article and think that there was an alternative to ridding the world of that animal, once and for all?

Some ways I am for the death penalty, some ways not. I do think bad people don't deserve to live, but in some ways I think death is an easy way out. They don't really have to feel their punishment that way, do they? And there is always the issue of killing an innocent person...however I don't think this guy is innocent.