[This Just In]

Well, I would have to agree with some of your comments, and disagree with other points.

I would suggest that sociopaths and psychopaths are not intimidated or dissuaded by the threat of capital punishment.

Whether you are in Sri Lanka, Africa, or America, if an individual suddenly disappears without a trace, family and friends will be suspicious and worried. To assume that the reason people worry when women and children disappear is because the judicial system isn't truly serving the public by executing sociopaths and psychopaths is oversimplifying the problem.

I would agree that if justice was truly served, and criminals were justly punished, it would deter illegal behavior by some.

[an amused spectator]

To assume that the reason people worry when women and children disappear is because the judicial system isn't truly serving the public by executing sociopaths and psychopaths is oversimplifying the problem.

You are correct.

I would suggest that sociopaths and psychopaths are not intimidated or dissuaded by the threat of capital punishment.

I would submit that such persons are EMBOLDENED by the knowledge that they don't face capital punishment. "Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others." "Psychopath - (technical) someone with a personality disorder characterized by extreme callousness, who is liable to behave antisocially or violently in getting their own way, without any feelings of remorse."

I would also submit that swift execution of such persons puts a real crimp in the personal needs and desires of a sociopath, and that death kind of prevents a psychopath from getting his or her own way. Anybody, anybody? Mr. Bundy.