Oh I agree, it will, but is it ok to revel in the murder of such evil criminals?
I have no doubt that there will be criminals in prison who will have issue with other inmates and want to cause them harm. Is that something we should hope happens ever though, what does that say about us as individuals if we do?
If so, why not issue a death sentence and potentiallysave the taxpayer money and also save another criminal from ruining their lives and their loved ones lives even more than they may already have with the obvious award of much longer sentences, at the taxpayers expense too. It never just ends with one evil person dying unless it is state sanctioned.
I have no truck with the death penalty for crimes such as terrorism like those that murder Lee Rigby for instance. The evidence was clear, on film and irrefutable from memory. I have no truck with violent gangland murders or child killers facing such an ending, but where do you draw a line? As Atypical points out those costs are not cheap either, there will be appeal upon appeal, lawyers would love it, but it may also be a deterrent to some, but I doubt to all.
I also think people would feel very differently between crimes committed against themselves and close loved ones than if to strangers. Humans, were all a hypocritical bunch if we care to admit it, we all have degrees of double standards.
I used to be strongly for it, but then you get cases like Andrew Malkinson occasionally springing up and I don’t think I‘d want to be on a jury that wrongly convicted someone to that degree, and if a death sentence was applied wrongly I am not sure how i’d cope if i’d been a party to a wrongful guilty verdict.
