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...expression "an eye for an eye" endorsed by all those around me. Yet the same people who believe that "one good hand deserves another" or that a punch should be returned with another punch do not feel that it is right for convicted murderers to be sentenced to die. Clearly, there is something truly offensive about this idea: It is the ambivalent approach of the law to life. As Scott Tucker points out, some of the same legal minds that oppose capital punishment also hypocritically see no role for law in the preservation of unborn lifeluding a ban on "partial-birth abortion," where the developed child is extracted feet first from the woman and has his or her brains sucked out (37-8). It is almost ironic that these same politicians who would willingly endorse the slaughter of innocent babies, will not condone a peaceful, silent injection for known murderer. Increasingly, the law is being whittled away so that the elderly and infirm have less protection than they once enjoyed while murderers are...