It is less about punishment and more about prevention if it were to be handled in a consistent manner without ten million appeals and twenty years on death row, all subsidized by tax payers. I'll be damned if I find anything just in paying to keep some serial rapist or killer alive at my cost just to "punish" him. Fuck that, give him his chance for an appeal and then shoot him up like Lassie and burn his ass.
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