Comment Re:And still no death penalty for rape (Score 1) 436
There are many reasons for a death penalty though, many times people that might have cared deeply for the deceased might not themselves outlive the person that did the crime, so this way they know that justice is served and the person is dead beyond the point of getting let out of prison. Also while many think only of themselves when they as jurors have to decide if a person lives of dies, I personally would take it as a slap to the face to a parent whose daughter was raped and killed if you told them you did not want to be responsible for putting someone who killed their daughter to death for instance. If I was the father of a girl that was raped and killed I would personally want to see them dead not in jail, just in case I was to die unexpectedly and not able to be sure they died in jail.