> He's got off lightly (for the purposes of my argument, there's no Hell), because now he can lie down and rest. If he'd been jailed for life, he'd have had 30 years or so to sit around and think about it.

I am also somebody who has so much respect for the miracle that is life that I refuse to believe the government should have the power to decide who should die. That's why I disagree with that particular argument; I believe any life is better than no life. Murderers are truly in a deep, dark place and what better opportunity for them to redeem themselves than sitting around in a prison cell for thirty years with nothing to do but contemplate their lives?