massive reform needed wrote:
The death penalty the way its done costs more than life in prison but that is bc it has to be humanly done. The fact that the person is at that point should allow morals or whatever you want to call it to be thrown out the window. im not agreeing at all in the idea of torture or of suffering in death but the old way of a firing squad or of something like a beheading is a quick and virtually painless way of dying. and if there is some pain in it so be it. they are probably not suffering like their victims did.
rehabilitation works sometimes and it should be used when its proven most effective, however, in a case like this i do not see it being effective nor would i want to experiment with its effectiveness. stop the problem from reoccurring. if someone like this guy doesnt have a strong enough grasp on life by then to not do this i dont feel wasting time on rehab is going to fix him. so get him off this planet and if there is hell then may he rot in it. and if there isnt a hell then may we enjoy or time on earth free of people like him.
It costs what it does because the people on death row get years and years of appeals because killing an innocent person would be awful (and it's definitely happened many times).
Innocent until proven guilty. This is the foundation of our legal system.