Also a victim of "life can be made 100% risk free." I understand a moral stance against the death penalty but would the same people outlaw high-speed police pursuits because inevitability innocent people will, and have been, killed by them? Hostage rescues?
As has been noted, they're two entirely different scenarios, but actually, yes, I
am against high-speed chases. I understand they want to try and get the criminal, but if the criminal has managed to escape, just continue to keep searching for them by getting tips from citizens, if you manage to see the car as the criminal's getting away, get the license number if you can, put out alerts to the public that someone is on the loose, that sort of thing. There's no need to put the lives of innocent people in danger through chasing after them. Criminals can try all sorts of dangerous manuvers during chases, like driving through neighborhoods, up on sidewalks, through school zones, etc., if they're desperate enough to get away from the police-it's too much of a risk to the public at large. Police endanger their lives everyday as part of their job description, but I am not in the mood to get in a car accident or be run over because some criminal was trying to outrun the police during a chase. Sorry.
Not complicated?
D-Day vet beaten, wife killed in robbery - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
The 90-year-old has since died as well. Tell that family and community how uncomplicated this issue is.
1, that is absolutely horrific and my heart goes out to the family. I hope the person or people who committed that crime are caught as soon as possible and get the punishment they deserve.
2, you realize that sometimes there are people who've lost loved ones to heinous crimes who
don't seek the death penalty, right? Who miraculously manage to show forgiveness? I saw a story on TV once about a woman whose father was murdered in front of her, and the guy almost got her, too.
She actually wound up fighting strongly to see to it he did not get the death penalty, but rather a jail sentence, life imprisonment. Not everyone who is the victim of a violent crime or knows someone who's a victim is hungry for that kind of revenge.
Not to mention, the criminal's death is a breeze compared to what they put the victim(s) through. To illustrate the point: in the story you shared, the victims were beaten and raped and brutally murdered.
What is the criminal likely going to get if they're put to death? A shot in the arm that lets them drift off to permanent slumber. Ooh, yeah, now they know
exactly how their victims felt, right? That showed them!