It is strange that we are currently governed by a system that directly relies on the use of vastly differentiated standards of what makes the "rarest of rare". The definition of the "rarest" is left to judges governed by personal viewpoints on what constitutes extreme rarity. Capital punishment has shown itself to be ineffective in having any deterrence to criminals. Capital punishment is used by the State to placate its citizens by sending the message that it is getting rid of the criminal, completely. The citizenry don't seem to have thought far enough to understand - or perhaps have ruminated over and accepted - that the responsibility of execution belongs to them individually. The taxpayer pays for the execution of criminals governed by a system that did not have any deterrence on them in the first place. The taxpayer has failed to consider even the inhumane method of execution: death by hanging. The focus in jurisdictions that practice capita...
Striving for a World without Capital Punishment