Writer's Block: Capital offense

Ah, don't we all just love questions like this.

Coming from a country where there haven't been any executions during peace since 1825 (Capital punishment in Finland) there is the predisposal (sp?) that I am a liberal extremist.

I am, admittedly, in a sense that I see no sense, moral or legal, in death penalty. If you really want to punish someone take their freedom from them for the rest of their natural life, but there is no excuse to murder a murderer in name of justice.

It is not a surprise to anyone that innocent people are killed by their governments in the name of moral and justice because of corrupt and / or biased courts, even though the spirit of justice should be that an innocent man is never convicted, that even guilty person have be set free if there is reasonable doubt about one's guilt.
Still, every year several innocent people get into death rows because the reasonable doubt is forgotten.

Many reason death sentences with religion, how it is deathly sin to kill someone... but killing someone because they have committed a sin is brutal, and I am quite sure that G-d is not very fond of such practises either as in such cases humans raise themselves to have the undertanding and rights of G-d - and last time I checked that was blasphemy.
Basically human being has no right to judge anyone in such drastic manner - if we use religion and G-d as the basis.

And if we don't I do not see what kind of ethic code would give anyone right to kill someone else. If killing someone is a crime everyone taking someone's life should be judged to death and all the sudden there would be piles of dead bodies...

Sin or no, killing anyone for whatever reason is simply utterly wrong. Period.

Presidential election HD and dancing gnomes

Tarja Halonen won (which means that she'll be president another 6 years) and I'm not complaining.

It's a dancing gnome..

Or at least one happy dancing stitcher.

Then some info:

• 25 count natural Dublin linen
• DMC; three strands
• Alphabet is Blackwork Script from CyberStitchers.com
• Gnome is from Vermillion Stitchery's retired freebie series called Fantasy Bears
• It'll be finished as bell pull when ever I find suitable hanger(s)

And big thank you for nice comments about my border-free gnome. Gnomey and I appreciate them.

Election update

There will be another round after two weeks.

This is one of the advantages of small population: election results are official in few hours.

Election day, 'Icy Blue' and hosting changes

It was first round of presidential election today. Actual results will be published tomorrow morning, I think, but it seems that according to advance voting results Tarja Halonen may get re-elected straight from the first round. She got 49.6 % from those votes so if she has any wild luck there'll be no second round. Though presidential candidate needs >50% of all votes to get elected - in first or in second round. (We use two-stage election system.)

I voted for her, again, so it'd be a win for me also. And she's always better than her 'strongest' competitor who's from right side of political range, and I prefer left-wing president. (Interesting little fact, they're both lawyers by education)

Icy Blue

And because I've some real progress with my first silhouette landscape it's picture time:

Info:

• Freebie from Classic Stitches
• Designed by Michaela Learner
• Stitched on 28 count black Jobelan
• Anchor floss
• Two over two
• Stitch-A-Long in four parts (2 months/ part)

I changed SAL pictures back to Photobucket. It's not fancy, but it seems to be only which really works.

And before anyone asks: Yes, I seem to be unable to decide my blog's name.

*hits her head* Ah, I almost forgot: I've planned to add desperately needed DMCs list in my stitchy wish list after I make an inventory of what I have and what I lack.