[Ciaphas Cain]

It is people like this who finally convinced me, after decades of feeling ambivalent about it, that the death penalty is absolutely warranted in too many cases.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I had a similar journey to pro-capital punishment.

[Joe 6-pack]

The actor Scott Glenn had a similar conversion. His character in Silence of the Lambs was based on John Douglas, founder of the FBI's behavioral sciences unit. While researching the role, Glenn spent time with Douglas who showed Glenn how serial killers were profiled, tracked and hopefully caught. Douglas played some tapes one killer had made recording the torture of his victims. Glenn said in an interview that he had been an opponent of the death penalty until that role, but came to support it afterwards.