Executed man's last request honored -- pizza for homeless
CNN.com/ 10 may 07

Hundreds of homeless people in Nashville, Tennessee, ate well Wednesday evening -- all in the name of a man who the state put to death just hours earlier.
Should death sentence be practiced only on hard core criminals? In my opinion, yes. I see no sense to why the law should place a corrected man to death. when actually, he could redeem for his mistakes. Reporters have interviewed him and he claimed that he robbed, shot all because of the need for money. Where such crimes are only committed helplessly for the sake of survival, why should criminals like them be condemned. In fact, I see that the state is indifferent to the welfare of their people and it is their responsibility to turn such situations round.
The next problem was about criminals losing their rights to choose the type of execution they want. Of the thirty eight states that allowed death penalty, thirty seven use the lethal injection method. Recent medical studies have suggested that standard procedure is flawed as it causes the victim to die a cruelly painful and silent death. Neverthelss, the state still insisted on practising the lethal injection execution on him despite the criminal choosing to be electrocuted.
Who are the real victims here? Eventhough many of the immates are sick and lost, but they are not some cold hearted killer who thinks that they are redeemable. Unlike the law practitioners who throw people away but yet want mercy and forgiveness.