Letters: Pennsylvania should get a spine and enforce the death penalty

TALK ABOUT a room with a view.

The "Cheating Death" front cover of the Daily News certainly seems to be showing a hot bachelor-pad that is to die for. Great place to check into, really reasonable rates and the beds are super comfortable!

We are beyond spineless when it comes to punishing the truly guilty for murder. Sadly, a person can plan and commit a murder yet receive nothing more serious than an all-expenses-paid trip to the state's finest all-inclusive hotel resort.

If our country can get involved in a war that has nothing to do with us, killing hundreds and hundreds, perhaps it can see fit to just kill one person on death row. Visit the local prison, select the inmate of the month with the most vicious killing background, and give him the needle. Better yet, hook him up for a little electroshock therapy.

Once people can see that we refuse to put up with a killer's antics anymore, then just maybe the killers will get the point.

These animals don't deserve any ethical treatment; their victims never received any.

Terry Saskin, Bensalem

I've always been an advocate for the death penalty.

Anyone who harms a child should be killed first. Those criminals are the worst and should be put to death immediately after their trials. No child can defend himself against an adult - whether a stranger or a family member.

For criminals to spend years on death row at the taxpayers' expense is a crime itself.

Gov. Corzine thought he was doing the right thing by signing away New Jersey's death penalty. Now Megan Kanka's murderer sits on death row when he should have been executed years ago.

Cheryl Gilbert, Oaklyn, N.J.

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To Christine Flowers:

Thank you for your recent Favre/McNabb op-ed. I found it very interesting, but I must strongly disagree when you said that Donovan McNabb "never embarrassed this city or his team off the field (and only rarely on it.)"

Did you miss the whole T.O. episode ("black-on black crime," "keep my name out your mouth")? Or stinking up the place and saying afterward "our youth showed today." You don't throw teammates under the bus like that.

And how is it possible to play nine years of professional football, four years of college and of high school (not to mention probably several years of Peewee ball) and not know a game could end in a tie?! And compound that error by announcing it publicly?

Not winning a Super Bowl doesn't define your career? How about losing three NFC championship games when your team is favored? I could go on, but I'm sure you see my point.

The guy embarrassed me and my city almost every time he spoke. And please don't ever say "rarely on the field" ever again when referring to that guy. I'm still waiting for him to come up big in a big game.

I agree that he could learn a thing or two from Favre (who has his issues as well), but Favre has at least won a Super Bowl. I'd rather take a chance on someone else because he has shown we were never going to win it all with him and his air guitar!

Jan Elliot Thrower, Philadelphia