I'm no death penalty proponent and I know innocent people get the shaft every day. I agree it's horrible, but had nothing to do with my point.

She may be guilty as sin -- I haven't followed it closely enough to pass judgment on the evidence. However, I do know that despite an Italian young man also on trial, the media coverage in Italy has been pre-occupied with Knox. This has been made-out to be a cause for Italian nationalism against an unpopular United States in Northern Italy. There's still a great deal of animosity around crimes -- even deaths -- caused by American servicemen that went unpunished in Italian eyes.

The scarves through me for a loop. Say what you will about the death penalty, that would have never been allowed here -- am I wrong?

I will have a Belikin -- put it on klcman's tab.