>First, I stand by my comments. When a person decides (again, pre-meditated) to take the life of an innocent person - where there is a very clear context of first degree pre-meditated murder with clear intent - I don't care if the person is taking the life of one innocent person or 100 innocent individuals. Either way, it's completely monstrous and that person forfeits all rights.
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>Second, again, I now legally oppose capital punishment, because of the possibility of errors by the judge/jury. So I suppose you could say my first point is a theoretical one - but I still stand by my comments.
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>Finally - I wouldn't necessarily assume that life in prison is harsher than the death penalty. There are many published works by mental health professionals who have worked with murderers doing long-term sentences in prison. Prison gives them a chance to mentally celebrate in their minds (and even boast to other inmates) on their "conquests, over and over again. Also remember that every year, long-term inmates doing time for murder have injured or even killed prison guards.

Also sometimes long term prisoners have reformed and are effectively not the person who was orginally convicted but they are still subject to execution.