My friend Jesse (not to be confused with Jess) has a bumper sticker on her car which reads "Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing is wrong". While I'm not entirely committed to death penalty (mainly because appeals cost millions of dollars), I feel like there's a pretty simple answer to that question. We DON'T kill people to SHOW that killing is wrong, we kill people to rid the world of evil- at least with respect to the death penalty.
John Evander Couey kidnapped, raped, and murdered nine-year old Jessica Lunsford by burying the child alive. Couey is one sick individual. As far as I can see (and if you don't agree you're as crazy as he is), the only options are life in prison or the death penalty- because as we all know, if you let these lunatics out of jail, they will continue to hurt little girls.
So, while I'm still unsure where I stand with respect to the death penalty, I'm certainly not losing any sleep over the fact that Couey will be dead in a couple years. What I really want to point out though, is the question, "Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing is wrong" is a tricky and manipuliative phrase which doops the observer (should you be so gullable) into assuming that we are killing to make a point- when in fact, we kill people like Couey to make the world a safer place.
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