Only if the execution method can involve a blowtorch, pliers and some rusty clamps. Otherwise, the scum is getting off too easy.
I didn't specify.
As long as the result is certain death.
I say this with all seriousness - it is criminal that our government has reduced the death penalty to a rarity. When people choose terrible evil, they need to be removed from the planet, for their good and ours.
If the death penalty were used properly, it sure as he!! would be a deterrent. The way it's implemented now is a sick joke.
Public beatings would do wonders, as well. The county DA in my rural county agreed with me on that one.