Those people that went there to cheer and freak out and all of that are seriously messed up.

I have a mixed opinion on the death penalty. Certain parts I agree with and others I don't. It scares the crap out of me to think that an innocent person (i.e. me) could be put to death. I don't really have a problem with it in really clear cut cases.

I also think that the privacy of it makes it lose all of its preventative value. I think they could use execution footage as part of first time offender probation. Kind of a scared straight kind of thing. My roommate and I watched a long ass show on the History channel the other night about the death penalty. It was quite interesting. Apparently a new type of execution they are considering is slow Oxygen deprivation by use of something like Nitrogen or Carbon Monoxide. The inmate would just pass out and then die. Technically, they could never even tell the person it was coming and just start the gas one night when it was lights out.

Of course, that would probably take away the whole cruel and unusual punishment argument to get appeals and whatnot.