the thing about the death penalty being a deterrent is a bunch of crock sorry..it hasn't kept these murderers from kidnapping and raping small children..i don't know what is the answer...i know i'm against the death penalty..always have been...i mean who is to say we should decide who lives an dies..and that reminds me that we should never have allowed Timothy MacVeigh the right to choose when he died..did he give those victims any choice? i'm soo though pulled when it comes to child killers...those are the innocent of the innocent....also i can't understand those who harm animals...