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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

its justice and closure for victims which is the prime motivation, liberal morality signaling is not welcome

also it saves taxpayers millions

There's zero evidence of any kind that the death sentence offered closure for grieving families and in fact most report that it simply doesn't.

What can it possibly offer?

Either you don't believe in the after llife in which case you have to understand that death means nothing to the dead... Or you do believe in an afterlife, in which case you surely believe they're going to the bad version of that, and for eternity, and will go there when they die regardless... In which case, sending them there a couple of decades early is again meaningless.

And this is in fact how most families of victims feel after a death sentence is carried out. Hollow, nothing. It changes nothing.