Bad.
All it is is more premeditated, cold-blooded killing.
Life in prison no parole ever, should be the sentence.
Lock him up and throw away the key...let God decide when he dies.
Death chambers need to be bulldozed.
Death needs to be on the table for some crimes, this is one of them.
I would abolish the DP on one condition. The maximum punishment would be to have to break down a boulder using a small hammer and chisel 12 hours a day. After that the criminal would have to crazy glue the boulder back together. Once done, he gets a new boulder, repeat ad nauseum. No workie, no feedie, and there is a noose availible if he/she wants to use it.
Death needs to be abolished for all crimes.
All of them.
Some US states have seen the light.
Nooses, electric chairs, lopping off heads, firing squads, stonings, hanging from cranes, gas chambers, beds...all barbaric in a civilised world.
I have no problem with the boulder breaking punishment though.
All convicteds must be kept alive...so that if they're later found to be innocent, as many have been...Sabrina Butler as but one example...poor Black single teen mom in the ghetto, her baby died, they said it was murder and shipped her off to death row for execution-homiciding by the state.
Luckily, after the DNA fraud scandal in Texas, she was granted an appeal.
She got a retrial, and was found to be innocent.