This World is in a Mess

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1952866,00.html

It's awfully convenient that the man investigating the Putin regime for allegedly planting the tower block bombs which initiated the Hell in Chechnya just happens to be fatally poisoned. He was also investigating the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, also allegedly murdered by the Putin regime. She too was investigating the root causes of the Chechnya wars.l

Death Penalty

I write as someone who believes that the state never has the right to take life. If an individual doesn't, then the state doesn't either - the death penalty is always wrong.

YET...

Read these two stories and tell me that the world wouldn't be a better place with the culprits removed entirely from it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6136786.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6123014.stm?ls

Thoughts, commentary etc please.