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I totally disagree. I do not believe ONE PERSON, ever, had decided whether or not to kill someone based upon whether he will get life without parole or the death penalty. In fact, I believe that convenient typical claim is absurd. Do you really believe anyone, ever, decided "because I'm only going to prison for the rest of my life I won't kill this person." ?
The deterence factor of the death penalty is it prevents that person from ever committing the offense again. The justice factor is without the death penalty, the murderer won and neither the victim nor family/friends ever got any justice.
I see opposition of the death penalty where it absolutely known the person did such horrific murder/s as totally ego centric and narcisstic. Life in prison definitely protects YOU. But it will take the entire lifetime of taxes of 2 or 3 of us to pay to keep YOU safe, while the murderer won by having his life, and the victim got no justice because she/he/they lost theirs. In fact, you are really claiming is that the result of committing the most horrific torturous and sadistic rape and murder of an entire family is for the murderer to be protected and provided for the rest of his life by the government.
So, sure, you are then safe. And all of us become his victim, not just the murdered or raped person/s.
That is wrong. There are plenty of families who do not wish to have the death penalty applied. One of the main reasons is because it extends the trial (and the pain) exponentially, they don't feel better when the person who killed their loved one is dead, it doesn't bring their loved one back, it causes pain to the perps family, among other reasons.
There are so many things wrong with the way the DP is applied now, and now people want to extend it to other crimes?