Do you think you are qualified enough to decide who shall live and who shall die? Well one of the many jobs of the Texas Gov. George W. Bush is to decide about executions. Karla Faye Tucker died by execution on Tuesday, February 3. She was the first woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War. Tucker committed a horrible crime, murder. She and her boyfriend killed another young couple with an axe and a hammer. When found guilty, her boyfriend was executed soon after, but Karla Tucker remained in jail for almost nine years. The former prostitute and drug addict claimed to have become a born-again Christian, even Pope John Paul II pleaded for her life. This execution was a great step in our society. Now, if a woman kills or commits another brutal crime, she could be tried for it; then given the death sentence. To me capital punishment is a mistake. You may think there are a bunch of weird people out there, and for their crimes they deserve to die, but I see it differently. If we as a society decide to punish with death, then what are we saying? We as a society lack the wit to answer brutality with anything more that brutality. We kill to deliver the message that killing is wrong. We need to build a better society than that.