As a staunch supporter of capital punishment, I'm proud of Virginia's ability to follow through with the death penalty. We aren't one of those wussy states that executes like 1 or 2 people a year, or whose governor commutes the sentences of everyone on death row in hopes of getting a Nobel Peace Prize (yes I'm talking about you, Illinois). We also aren't afraid to execute predators who manage to graduate to murder one before their 18th birthday. I don't believe (and never will) that something magical happens at age 18. I don't buy into the premise that murdering someone on Tuesday is less severe than murdering them on Wednesday because the perp wasn't 18 yet. If they can commit an adult crime, they should do the adult time.

Then come the anti's. Those are the people that oppose capital punishment no matter what the crime. They stand outside of prisons and hold candlelight vigils for even the most heinous of goblins. Apparently they also share similar views with Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter.

A broad array of individuals and groups ranging from Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev to the American Medical Association and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Supreme Court today to declare that it is unconstitutional to execute people for crimes they committed before turning 18.

The United States is one of only five countries that execute juvenile offenders, a practice that shocks European allies and violates "minimum standards of decency shared by virtually every nation in the world," nine eminent former U.S. diplomats told the court in one of 15 briefs filed today.

Then again, these are the same people that praised Castro's legal system as "efficient" by "Cuban standards".