Today we have a guest editorial by David Elliot from the Wisconsin Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Please remember these facts when you go to vote on Nov. 7. - Ed.

Suppose the Wisconsin Legislature approved a government spending program that cost taxpayers millions of dollars, yet failed to provide a single social service or discernible product.

Heads would roll, and angry voters would elect someone - a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, anyone - to fix the problem and reverse the wasteful spending of precious tax dollars.

Yet Wisconsin voters today are being asked to vote in favor of a nonbinding referendum to reinstate the death penalty - a government program that is immensely costly, makes mistakes, and, in most cases, fails to execute even those who end up on death row.