Hey guys I was just wondering if any of you had been following the story of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student who was found dead a week or so ago.

Personally being a female graduate student it definitely gives me pause, but I realize I'm not as involved as she was in research type scenarios or workplace drama so for something quite like that to happen to me is unlikely.

I am pleased at how quickly and smoothly the investigation seems to be going, but at the same time I wish law enforcement would be this vigilant about other crimes as well. This may be wrong of me but a lot of me thinks that if this hadn't happened on a college campus to a young pretty girl who just happened to be extremely close to her dream wedding day to what sounds to be a great guy, it wouldn't be investigated so thoroughly in an attempt to get things as right as humanly possible.

I know there's supposedly DNA evidence implicating the guy they arrested in the last day or so, but I'll be watching closely to see how it all plays out. I suspect the prosecution is going to be seeking the death penalty in this case. I gotta say that although I definitely feel for the family of both the victim and her fiance in this case, I still don't think I support the death penalty here. That's just my personal opinion, especially if the guy they arrested did it, as it seems right now at least that if that is the case, he knows it and was expecting to get arrested and maybe even die for it. I don't think that criminals should be "given what they want" first of all, and I think many of the guilty criminals in capital cases know exactly what is at stake and are oftentimes ready or even anxious to die, sometimes as a sense of martyrdom or whatever. And I don't think they should be given that choice, personally. On the other hand, I've also seen way too many cases where all the evidence points to this horrific crime being committed by a specific individual, when in reality the evidence just happens to only coincide with what happened in such a way to implicate someone innocent. I really hope that doesn't happen here and the DA really does their work on the case.

Having said that this isn't meant to be a death penalty debate but merely a discussion about the situation. I know others of us here are college students, and even more of us were college students fairly recently or know someone who is. So what do you all think about this? I'm definitely interested to hear your thoughts. And if I need to I can post some articles with background about the case, in case this post piqued your interest but you hadn't really heard about it before.