Ivy, I have to tell you, I was with you 100%, up until that last sentence. Usually I don't oppose the death penalty, but I don't know if I would go that far, although of course it would depend on the crime.

A woman that my husband graduated high school with was murdered several years ago by an illegal immigrant who was working for a company she hired to power wash her deck. Not only was she raped and murdered, but then the bastard stole her cell phone and called all her contacts and taunted them with what he had done to her.

I personally believe that someone like that should have gotten the death penalty right out of the box. Some guy who becomes a drug mule or the woman forced to work off debt to the people who brought her into the US in a brothel are both engaged in illegal activities. However, they should not be punished the same way as the bastards who are using them.