> prison isn't effectively stopping someone's evil actions enough. Yes, I think this is the crux. There are a number of edge cases. I also don't mean to muddle

> prison isn't effectively stopping someone's evil actions enough. Yes, I think this is the crux. There are a number of edge cases. I also don't mean to muddle issues but there are actually more homicides in prisons per year than there are capital punishments[1] but this issue doesn't get much attention. I am not arguing that capital punishment would prevent this issue (although I am very interested in knowing the likelihood of people with life sentences murdering behind bars versus the rest). That is why I have made this argument. I don't see how it's possible for a prison to stop someone who is motivated and dangerous (or has a dangerous following). I also don't think a crime should give you notoriety and fandom esp. in particularly bad cases like with serial killers . These cases are very rare though so I am not making any argument about how often capital punishment should happen just that there are cases where I see it as being perfectly moral and this assumes specifically that it is very difficult or impossible to totally isolate someone from the world, too expensive to do so, or possibly even that is a worse punishment than just executing them. I don't know that this has really been achieved ever. [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/220920/number-of-state-prisoner-homicides-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/220920/number-of-state-p...