[Wallace T.]

That is why there must always be a death penalty, not only for the killers of peace officers, but for anyone who murders another person. "Life without parole" is a joke. Anyone so sentenced can be released upon a shift in the political wind.

[Samwise]

I will never understand how you can get a life sentence and a death sentence and walk the streets.

The death sentence does deter crime. Dead people don't kill again.