Dylann Roof sentenced to death for Charleston church massacre

cdogg said

Death is worse than life, even in prison. If it wasn't, why would the death penalty be a question? Prison would be the worst sentence you could give, but it isn't. Death is. If death was better than life in prison, there would be suicides by the hundreds daily.

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There are. Suicide a much bigger problem than you think it is.
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

On average, there are 121 suicides per day (in America). Each year 44,193 Americans die by suicide. There are 25 attempts for every successful suicide,

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Note those numbers only count our country. It's a huge problem world-wide.

Supposedly, the death penalty is a deterrent, but it hasn't proven to be so. A psychopath doesn't care about dying, and people who commit crimes of passion are so caught up in their emotion, such a threat not only isn't a deterrent, but may even be something they desire.