Emotionally, I'm all for the death penalty. However, I prefer thinking over feeling, which is why I'm against it. 1. Killing someone is more expensive than locking them up for life. 2. The death penalty is irrevokable. 3. It hasn't proven to be a deterrent. 4. Keeping the cases up for review is harder on the victims' families than locking them up forever. At least that's closure. 5. There either is an afterlife or there isn't. If there isn't, then you've given the person sweet release. If there is, then 30-50 years of hell on earth doesn't rob the real hell of much time off of eternity.
