Then I’m a fool. I did crazy things in my youth with NO THOUGHT of the consequences. Lucky I never got caught. No not murder or rape, but theft.
These animals don’t care but that doesn’t mean I’m against the death penalty. I’m FOR IT.
If executions were carried out within hours of conviction and in public and in a brutal way, it would be a deterrent, but some vague possibility of maybe dying 20 yeas down the line is not a deterrent.
This sort of thing needs to be viewed in terms of large numbers. Of course some few would not be deterred, this we know by the laws of probability. But when perps make the direct and immediate association between their potential crime and the death penalty, then vast numbers of them choose to turn from that crime.
Perhaps naked upside-down crucifixions on TV once a week at halftime on the Monday Night Football game?