When we became civilized, we turned over the right of retribution to society, confident that we could expect justice, administered fairly to evil people who no longer deserved to live.

Does our country not have the right to cut out the cancer of poisonous, heinous individuals who destroy the lives of others? Must we continue to support rapists and murderers of children to the end of their natural lives?

The problem is the inefficiency of the process, cynically drawn out by specious appeals designed to make the death penalty too expensive to carry out.

Our state government has failed us.

Bruce Huber

Colorado Springs