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Mrs Lurtz is off to the States in January for a couple of months. I'd prefer she didn't go in a way, of course, but she'd organised this before we met and it's a fantastic opportunity for her. She's newly qualified barrister and is taking time out to work on appeal cases for death row prisoners in America. It's through a charity called Amicus and she's paying all her expenses herself. Now that's a remarkable amount of commitment to have to a cause, you can't argue with that. On the other hand though, we've had some interesting arguments about the use of capital punishment. Mrs L is well against it in any possible scenario. I've used the stock 'Ian Huntley' argument and that maybe he'd be better served up as worm food than being looked after at the expense of you and I. As she basically gets paid to argue in court I stand a very slim chance of winning any of the debates I'd have with her on the subject so I thought I'd test the big brains at the GF to see if anyone's got a water tight, plausible argument either way. For me there are three scenarios. Take your pick and stick down a couple of lines to back your vote up.