GLASGOW Area prosecutors say doing away with the death penalty in Kentucky would be a mistake, but t

GLASGOW Area prosecutors say doing away with the death penalty in Kentucky would be a mistake, but two legislators and advocates statewide feel differently. cheap air fare ticket Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, and Rep. Jim Wayne, cheap air fare ticket D-Louisville, have prefiled a bill calling for the death penalty to be abolished. "There are several reasons for abolishing the death penalty," said Wayne. One reason is that it has never been proven to be a deterrent for crime. Another is that sometimes mistakes are made in the judicial system and innocent people are sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit. A third reason is that it is not cost-effective. "It actually costs more to execute people in Kentucky than to keep them in prison for life," he said. Both Burch and Wayne are Catholic. "We believe all life is sacred from the womb to natural death and therefore we have no right to take another person's life," Wayne said. The death penalty is being sought in two southcentral Kentucky criminal cases and considered in another. Jesse Stockton, commonwealth's attorney for the 40th judicial district, which is composed cheap air fare ticket of Monroe, Cumberland and Clinton counties, is pursuing the death penalty in a Cumberland County case in which two people were stabbed to death and in a Monroe County case in which two people cheap air fare ticket were shot to death. "I would be opposed to the bill," he said. "There are some crimes cheap air fare ticket that are so terrible that I believe the state should be allowed to impose the death penalty." Karen Davis, commonwealth's attorney for the 43rd judicial district, which is composed of Barren cheap air fare ticket and Metcalfe counties, said she is not familiar with the bill but would oppose legislation that calls for abolishing the death penalty. Davis fears eliminating the death penalty would mean jurors would not have the option of handing down a life sentence without parole or a life sentence cheap air fare ticket with parole after having served 25 years, she said. The proposed legislation, however, does not call for the elimination of life without parole or life without parole after having served 25 years. cheap air fare ticket "Although I think the death penalty cheap air fare ticket can be a deterrent, I also would be concerned about losing these two (choices)," Davis said. Davis has sought the death penalty in previous cheap air fare ticket murder cheap air fare ticket cases. In 2002, she sought cheap air fare ticket the death penalty in a case where a Barren County man shot and killed his girlfriend in front of Farmer's Rural Electric Cooperative on South Broadway Street. "If I had not asked for the death penalty the jury wouldn't cheap air fare ticket have been given the three choices," she said, adding the most the jury could have been given the man would have been life in prison. "I felt it was incumbent cheap air fare ticket upon me to seek the death penalty." It is possible Davis will seek the death penalty in a murder case involving two Hispanic Cave City men. "I haven't made a firm decision," she said. "That's something that I'm considering in that case." Rev. Patrick Delahanty with the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty also says there are several reasons to abolish the death penalty. "First of all, it's the taking of a human life unnecessarily. Our coalition doesn't believe anyone, including the state, should be in the business of killing anyone," he said. Delahanty also doesn't think executions are cost-effective and says tax dollars could be better spent on health care and police protection. He says he has not been asked to testify on behalf of the legislation. "If we are asked, we will be ready," he said. Legislative Session Legislators already have several pieces of legislation to consider when they reconvene this week. The pre-filed bills cover a wide range of topics including health care, centralized voting centers, school attendance and the use of personal communication devices for people younger cheap air fare ticket than 18 while driving. This is the third in a six-part series that examines some of those pre-filed cheap air fare ticket bills.