Last May, my sister was stabbed twenty-two times in the chest and killed. This happened in Iowa. The killer then immediately drove across the Missouri River and within an hour of my sister's death shot an old friend of mine eleven times, killing him.
Iowa has no death penalty. Nebraska does, but the prosecutors determined that the second death was not 'heinous' enough to bring a death penalty charge. Maybe if he'd shot him twelve times??
The murderer has already been convicted of the second crime. He stood in court and begged the court to kill him.
But they won't.
We'll warehouse him at great expense for the next 30-50 years. That is, if during that time, some collection of Leftists doesn't find some way to reinflict him on society...
The whole thing is a gross miscarriage of justice.
The Left's anti-life agenda is reigning supreme: To kill the innocent and spare the guilty.