1. A big shoutout to those Southern states that still actually use capital punishment.
2. This country is full of people who have absolutely no conscience. They will murder without a moment's hesitation.
3. So if an individual is actually guilty of murder, s/he should -- at the very least -- be removed from the face of this earth.
4. The other day an individual robbed a store and then decided to murder the clerk. He may join the other 700+ inmates on California's death row, but he won't be worried: Our new governor has publicly declared that he will not allow any executions. He does not care a whit about the victim or the victim's family.
The problem with the Death Penalty, at the end of the day, is that you can never be sure.
We have released 156 individuals from Death Row when it was discovered they had not committed the crimes they were convicted of. Of the 1500 or so people we have executed, some of them probably also didn't do what they were accused of.
The thing is, the guys you complain about, the ones with no conscience. They usually don't get the death penalty. Their lawyers are smart enough to plead them down to three hots and a cot for the rest of their lives. It's often the poor fool who thinks that the system will prove their innocence that ends up on Death Row.