I think the real issue behind capitol punishment is that you can hardly ever be fully sure that a person has commited a crime. In the times that someone is caught dead to rights, either by video or some sort of other failsafe means than they should be punished to fit the crime. The problem with that is though, who decides what should get the death penality anyway? There have been too many times that the court system has killed people that never perpetrated the crime in the first place. Yet there is no recourse if they kill an innocent person. Whoops, sucks to be you. Sorry doesn't cut it to the families of wrongly convicted individuals. How about making the judges and government personally liable in death row cases? If they screw up they should be seriously punished, just like every other person in our society that makes the wrong decision. That would start a self regualtion by the officials. There are a few people out there that should be gotten rid of. Manson comes to mind. He will never be sucessfully brought back into society , and taxpayers are paying his room and board for a seriously sick individual. I want a machine that can scan into the human brain and show live footage of the act before I could ever commit a human being to be executed. Thats the only way that anyone could ever be sure that they had done the crime.
On the issue of abortion, I am ferverently against its use as a means of birth control. There are only a few cases which it should be deemed available. When a woman is raped, she should get a choice. When a woman has a serious medical complication and the child won't survive along with the mother. As it stands there is way too much abortion as a means of birth control. Which ends up being senseless killing. Sorry to say in the molecular biological field, life begins when the sperm impregnates the egg. So if they don't want a child don't have sex. Easy as that.