[DanaC]

Yes and no.

I am entirely opposed to the death penalty. I am also entirely opposed to a prison system in which inmates live in squalor and are routinely raped and abused, but that's by the by.

I disagree with the death penalty so am never happy to hear that someone is to be executed, regardless of the appalling nature of their crime. But: in a country which allows for the death penalty for the most heinous crimes, it would be a travesty if these men were not sentenced to death.

I am slightly perturbed by some of the reports about confessions under duress for a couple of the defendants for whose involvement (and level of involvement) the evidence is less clear.