Kind of makes me think about the Rubin Hurricane case, which I wasn't alive for, but I read about it. Sad stuff, I think capital punishment could be helpful, but we do our best to make it useless. I mean, personally, I don't know why we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year helping scum that can't be helped, but when it costs at least as much to kill them, there's something wrong. It's also bad when somebody is wrongfully convicted and gets the needle. I think maybe only confessions of multiple homicides should allow capital punishment, to minimize room for error and make it so only psychopaths get killed. Granted, it seems wrong to kill somebody for being born different, but if it means we don't spend years trying to fix him so we can throw him back on the street to kill again, that's worse.