Some people just deserve to die. We can’t let our personal emotions interfere with that fact. Public execution should be so scary it makes a mean pos piss in his pants watching. Deterrence - it work.
Oh, my view is not personal at all. It is strictly legal, and based upon my understanding of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
I am not saying I am correct or that you are necessarily incorrect. I am merely posting my disinterested, not personal, opinion. As long as poor guys get executed while wealthy guys get lesser punishment for the same offense, I am uncomfortable. I mean they are both going to Hell. I just think they should arrive on the same bus.
If I took all the law stuff I’ve done personally I would be a lot crazier than I am now.
BTW, I never had any kind of personal relationship or even rapport with my former death row client. But, in addition to being poor, he was a sociopath in my unmedical opinion. However, he was not insane, which is a legal not medical term. IOW, he knew right from wrong.
I agree with you about deterrence. If the State chooses to implement the DP, it should be on TV, or in the town square -just impose it fairly.