Only Just way for it would be as a sentence determined by a jury of the accused peers.

If it is immoral/illegal/what have you for an individual to commit murder, how is it moral/legal/what have you for a group of people to commit murder. Logically inconsistent. I would require proof that the death penalty "works" before accepting your argument. Anyhow, this post was about how Demo...

This is a statement of opinion, not proof that the death penalty is efficacious in any way.

So, this is only true in a limited set of circumstances. If the public doesn't have faith that death is always (or almost always) given justly, then it doesn't work as a deterrent. It's like having an unpredictable abusive parent, stern parenting helps a child know how they should behave, erratic u...

Well, if that were true, there wouldn't be murder. What is true, though, is that innocent people have been capitally punished, and there's no undoing that.