1.   Fatah called for a strike throughout Gaza on Monday if the killers were not executed.

2.   If killers of black people were executed at the rate of killers of whites, many more blacks would receive death sentences.

3.   If, on the other hand, killers of whites were executed at the same rate as killers of blacks, many whites would be spared.

4.   In one of the most important capital punishment cases in years, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that executing killers who are mentally retarded is unconstitutional.

5.   In turn, the killer is executed by the legal system.

6.   In turn, whenever a killer is executed, prosecutors and politicians say the sentence needed to be carried out in order to demonstrate our respect for victims.

7.   The Israeli military is now making the arrests and executing the killers, acts that an authoritative Palestinian Authority should have been doing.

8.   The state cannot execute the killers twice.

9.   This, then, is a bad rap on Chiles even among those who lust for executions, since eight killers have been executed during his term.

10.   When Florida recently executed four killers in eight days, no fewer than seven state lawmakers showed up at the state prison at Starke to watch.