Death Penalty Question

[opebo]

Regardless of what the punishment de jour may be, it shall never be applied to the right people.  Such was true of the boiling in oil, the electric chair, the injection, the psychiatric internment, and no doubt it will be true of the genetic brainwashing cure.

I'd be glad to turn every common murderer in the country free if we could trade them for the top 0.1% under the guillotine.

[opebo]

Where the heck is the reasonable option? 

[opebo]

But the death penalty saves all the time and effort of 'reforming' the worthless gutter-trash of society, most of whom are so evil that the death penalty in its present form is too good for them anyway.

This is precisely how I feel about the rich, E.D.

[opebo]

Why on earth do you think these crimes warrant 'life imprisonment without possibility of parole'?  I certainly don't.