The death penalty does not deter people from committing crimes -- that neo-Nazi would have killed those kids regardless. Murdering him doesn't bring the kids ba

The death penalty does not deter people from committing crimes -- that neo-Nazi would have killed those kids regardless. Murdering him doesn't bring the kids back. The death penalty was enacted initially because there were no long term prisons -- the way to keep someone from committing more crimes was to kill them. Now we have other options.