What the!? Where the hell do you live to be getting a year in prison for littering? Around here, it's $500 max.
Anyway, I agree with everyone in this thread excluding Tyrannicide. One kills a person, the killer gets killed. It's way better than spending around 50 years in prison and then getting out on parole(sp?). If they kill again, who's fault is it for letting them out of prison? Eye for an eye as Titus has stated.