“If it stops just one murderer,”
the death penalty is not a preventive measure nor should it be treated as such.
no person is going to say “hmmmm i better not plan this murder or i might get put to death”
the point of the death penalty is that there are simply some crimes that are so wrong that the only way to right it is to simply remove the killer from this world.
end of story.
[Dorsey went to the Bonnies’ home that night. After they went to bed, Dorsey took a shotgun from the garage and killed both of them before sexually assaulting Sarah Bonnie’s body, prosecutors said. Police said Dorsey stole several items from the home and tried to pay off a drug debt with some of the stolen goods.
A day after the killings, Sarah Bonnie’s parents went to check on the Bonnies after they had failed to show up for a family gathering. They found the couple’s 4-year-old daughter on the couch watching TV. She told her grandparents that her mother “won’t wake up.”]
Stole things afterwards ———> to pay off a drug debt.
https://apnews.com/article/missouri-execution-brian-dorsey-1a7801bb6fc42e666d95daa68a2b2ce1
Go back to reddit. Thats where you belong. You bleeding heart liberal.
“the death penalty is not a preventive measure nor should it be treated as such.”
Be sure to qualify this statement as executed murderers are prevented from further murders. This is a primary reason to carry out the sentence swiftly.