Quote Originally Posted by know1 View Post
That's not even a valid argument. If it were, it should be asked why we pay for ANYONE who's in jail for that matter.

Besides, we pay for an absolute TON of things that are more worthless to me than incarcerating a murderer.
Statistics show that in foreign countries where penalty of death is imposed for heinous crimes that those crimes diminish greatly over time. In fact some are almost non existent because of the fear of the death penalty. The Bible eludes to in many passages to cast away those that do such acts.

Convict them beyond a shadow of a doubt and kill them all God will sort out the rest. I can't help but wonder if you would feel this way if one of these horrible things hit home....