I would rather pray for an end to inhuman monsters that are so dangerous that there is no rational solution for them other than execution.
Life sentences? Hah. No prison is escape-proof. Some people are so dangerous that the very possibility that they might escape and kill again is too much risk for the innocent community - and therefore they must be put down.
The first execution known in what is now the USA was of Captain George Kendall by firing squad in 1608.
15,269 people have been executed from 1608 to 1991.
Approximately 864 have been executed since 1991.
So, an approximate grand total is 16,493 from 1608 to August, 2014 over 406 years.
Not one of those 16,493 executed persons has KILLED again. That is an indisputable fact.
My argument in favor of the death penalty is this: Folks, the vast majority of those men executed were very, very, very dangerous and fearsome human beings EVEN locked in a steel cage!
There can be no doubt then in any sane persons mind that many of these executed prisoners would have killed again had they not been caught and put to death.
So, the death penalty saves lives. Period.
The counter argument from lefty’s is “well, they would have been in prison and not out in the general public”. I say to that “well, lefty, it’s ok with you that they kill other inmates and guards and that we the taxpayers spend billions housing, feeding and providing health care to them for centuries”................all so that you can “feel good”!