Grimmett pleaded guilty in 2017 to shooting another man with a shotgun. He received a 10-year suspended sentence.
A lot of people worry excessively about the death penalty because an innocent person might get executed.
1) Extremely rare. In the US you really have to struggle to come up with an incident where this happened.
2) How many murderers go on to kill people while they are in prison? Quite a few.
3) How many murderers don't go to prison and go on to kill innocent people? Quite a few.
You want to avoid needless deaths of innocent people? Use the death penalty a lot more frequently.
It showed.among other things,the "cross racial" (my term) murder is rare in this country. More specifically it shows that blacks killing whites is very,very unusual and that whites killing blacks is almost unheard of (I wish I could recall the figures).
You want to avoid needless deaths of innocent people? Use the death penalty a lot more frequently.
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And not only more frequently but much more rapidly, like within two weeks of apprehension of the perp following a verdict of guilty. No exceptions and no appeals.