[judgeandjury]

Boiled down to its essence, the argument is this: The existence of three-strikes laws creates an incentive for felons to kill officers who try to arrest them or any potential witnesses to their crimes.

So in a state with a "3 strikes" law and the death sentence, the difference between not killing a police officer and killing a police officer, who is trying to arrest you for what would be your 3rd strike, is receiving 25 years in prison or receiving a death sentence after being tried in a court of law.

[wideawake]

The point of the killing is to elude being captured and thus being tried or sentenced anywhere for any crime.

Any large police department will tell you that there are unsolved cases of copkillers - capture is not inevitable.