I have a site bookmarked on my laptop.  It's a record of each convict executed by various states since 1976.  It has their name, photos of them, details of their crime and their last meal and final statements.  Sometimes it also has photos of their victims. Link

I stop by there every so often to see who's been send to their grave and what they did to get there.

Most of the crimes make me sad, but the ones who REALLY bother me are the crimes against children.  There are kids who have been treated just terribly during their short lives - they've been shaken, punched, slapped, burned, starved, raped, sodomized......I could go on and on about the atrocities that have been done to these poor wee souls.  One little girl was beaten so badly that most of her ribs were broken and her pancreas and liver had been ripped in two from the trauma.

I usually come away from reading those articles with tears in my eyes.  There's something so heinous about crimes against children...it just makes me want to cry.  I don't believe in the traditional concepts of heaven and hell, but I do believe that there is a special place in whatever hell may be reserved for these people who abuse and murder children.  I cannot accept that those who repent of their sins can get a 'get into heaven free' card.  Not after what they've done to these kids.  There has to be some penalty greater than being incarcerated and killed in a relatively pleasant manner (as one convict who was being executed said as the medications started flowing into his veins "it's like passing out on drugs").  It's just not enough, in my opinion.  There has to be more.  

There has to be more.  Dying just isn't enough.