[fabsroman]

Val,

You know my position on the death sentence, but for those that don't, I am all for it if we are 100% sure that the person is guilty, not merely beyond a reasonable doubt.

I used to be completely for it, until I heard about a bunch of guys on Illinois' death row that were later found not guilty because we gained the ability to test DNA and therefore find out that they were not the rapists.

Another case that scared me was one where a doctor was found guilty of poisoning his wife. They wanted to give him the death sentence in that one, but he only ended up with life in prison. The entire verdict was based upon some new type of testing for this previously untraceable poison in the body. The test found that people that were poisoned by this specific type of poison showed some trace element of something else that is not normally found in the body. Well, after this case and testing were done, bunches of people were found guilty of poisoning their loved ones with this specific poison. An FBI analyst started to wonder about this, and he tested some bodies of people that died through gun shot wounds, heart attacks, cancer, etc. and he found the trace element in each of them. It appears that upon death, our body creates this trace element. Anyway, the doctor was let out of prison after a couple of years in there. I just wouldn't want that to be me thrown in jail when I am innocent and I definitely could not imagine me getting the death sentence if I was innocent.

It's not the guilty ones I am worried about, but the ones that happen to be innocent.

Like I said, I am all for the death penalty if we are 100% positive that they are guilty.

Now, what is the issue with lethal injection? Why is it being covered by CNN and what is the issue with these labs?