Forgive me, but I believe in punishing criminals, and not waxing philosophic about their rights after they've committed the most vicious of crimes. I believe in eliminating their threat to the public. Permanently.
I reserve my sympathy and defense of rights for the victims, not the murderers.
Not everyone sentenced to death was a murderer though. You can always increase security at a prison but a death sentence can never be undone once carried out.
That's why there's an appeals process that takes 7 to 10 years, at least, to actually carry out the execution sentence.
Ted Bundy took closer to 20 years to be executed. Probably partly due to the fact that he was a lawyer who knew how to manipulate the process.
