Does prison cost too much? Of course. However, nowhere does the Bible suggest execution as an answer to financial difficulty. Execution is revenge – plain and simple. And I believe the Bible does say something about revenge.

I’ve got no problem with forgiveness. I’ve got a problem with the burdeon that’s put on the system by these people and the enormous cost associated with sorting out their criminal acts. Prison should not cost $40,000 a year and Nichols attorney fees should not have been in the millions of dollars for such a clear cut case.

If you think the New Testament leads us to always be merciful and caring and sweet and tolerant then perhaps it is you that should be reading the New Testament. Start with Mark. The Old Testament is very clear about crime and punishment and the New Testament did not supercede it to the extent you’re imagining. The bible does not instruct us to be fools and rely totally on him for everything including protection and our justice. Only he can see through the hardened heart of a criminal and only he can be the judge. I just want to make them stand before him a little faster than you. They’ll still have to answer to him one day.

For the record I despise Bill O’reily, it’s been at least 5 years since I’ve watched one of his shows.

I don’t think prison is a holiday either, just too expensive. I’d do anything to stay out.

I thank the lord every day no one close to me has been a victim of violent crime, so thankfully I can’t speak from experience. But, I think it’d make me feel much better knowing no one would ever suffer under that person’s hand again. You can forgive someone at any time, regardless of whether they’re alive or dead.

You seriously enjoy that it takes 20 years to execute someone who rightfully deserves it? If someone murdered your significant other in a brutal and merciless way it’s odd to think you’d be comforted knowing you’re buying them a nice hot breakfast every morning, a place to sleep at night, and cable TV, until they had finally paid the price for their crime.

Rapists, child molesters, and evil 1st degree murderers should all have speedy trials in cases with abundadant and irrefutable evidence. Take away or speed up the appeals process so these terrible worthless people waste as little time and money as possible. And this whole pleading insanity thing should be irrelevant. If a mentally ill person commits a terrible crime they’re a threat to society and should be dealth with accordingly. Stupidity is not an excuse.

Brian Nichols should have been executed years ago. How someone can commit such a heinous crime with hundreds of witnesses still costs this state more money than I’ll ever make in my life I’ll never know. This case was a disgrace. He should walk in, they show the video tape and listen to a couple of witnesses and then he’s executed. Simple and quick like.