When is enough enough, and when is it too much? Should the punishment always fit the crime, and is that punishment harsh enough?

These are a few of the questions that have been plaguing America since last Friday, when Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 1994 bombing in Oklahoma City.

What does this verdict mean for us as Americans? Does it prove anything? Will it ever prove anything?

Advocates of the death penalty say this is just the the type of incident that the death penalty was made for, while opponents say all it is, is more bloodshed.

Who’s right?

Who knows?

There are so many possible positions to this issue that no one knows what side to be on.

What about the stance of the different militias? Will they use this sentence to declare McVeigh a martyr? And will they take that and run rampant with random incidents of violence across the country? Is this going to bring a new terroristic reign of horror across the nation? A reign controlled by our own?

Will McVeigh’s death bring closure to this whole incident? For that answer, we must ask the families that his actions have touched. Ask them if their grieving will stop when his breath does. Ask them if their hearts will stop hurting only when his stops beating. Ask them if it will take his death to stop their tears from falling.

The death penalty is an issue that will be disputed for years to come. It is an issue that divides the cities, states and country. It is one of those topics that allow us to play both sides of the fence. It is a yes and no situation.

As members of this editorial board we met, we discussed, we argued and we agreed to disagree. But we also realized that all the stances are good ones. It is a personal decision, and, personally, we don’t know what to do in this case.