hey,
Пятхъдесят Шест, does the soda can on your avatar say korean for "bong bong?"
as for the death penalty, it is an extremely good deterrent, and it does cut down on tax money spent on people who have already forfeited their right to life through such heinous crimes as murder -- but the problem is that it can of course be misused by prosecutorial zealots and lead to the killing of the innocent. hopefully dna testing should alleviate some of that.