It is violence like this that requires our society to bring back capital punishment with a vengeance.
All the studies show that capital punishment is NOT a deterent. And it is NOT with the way it is conducted. The average person sits on death row for 24.5 years. That is pure nonsense.
You want capital punishment to be a deterent, force these dead from the neck up worthless politicians to do the following:
1. ESSENTIAL: Make capital punishment PUBLIC. Forget this nonsense of lethal injection. Make it painful, but most
important, again make it PUBLIC. Make it a memory in the mind of every person, but particularly for those
with a criminal mind
2. TIMELINESS: End the lengthy time before the punishment is executed. Give the condemned two years to get an appeal,
and if one fails, on two years and a day, the condemned is executed...PUBLICLY.
3. MAKE MORE CRIMES TO RECEIVE A CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OUTCOME
Beside murder in the 1st degree, insure all the following if committed result in PUBLIC capital punishment:
A. All piracy events
B. All committing another crime that results in one or more people murdered, i.e. robbery, car highjacking, etc
C. All acts of rape of children age 12 and under, mandatory capital punishment
D. All acts of human trafficking, no exception, PUBLIC execution
E. All illicit drug distribution above a certain level (to be determined) PUBLIC execution
F. All mass shootings of 2 or more people, PUBLIC execution
G. The murder of any law enforcement officer, PUBLIC execution
Anyone committing any of the above is just not needed in a society of 350+ million people, and growing. Not a single one!!! We have become stupid as a society, and weak. Our desire to protect the violent criminal is totally irrational. You want to put a real dent in violent crime, MAKE IT A TRUE DETERENT, then bring back capital punishment with a vengeance. End the nonsense created by self centered attorneys looking to make more money, with not a care for justice.
Without a viable capital punishment policy for any of the above, we are a society without justice. And nothing screams that more than the brutal murder of the young Ukrainian woman on a train in North Carolina and the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk. Both these assailants should receive a swift trial, and be brought to the executioner in two years or less, and not one day longer. Failure for that to happen, and justice is a joke. Particularly the violent murder of the Ukrainian woman, caught on video. His trial and execution should be completed in months, not years.