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Originally Posted by MageB420666
It is the only punishment that has a 100% chance of preventing the person from commiting the same crime again, with life imprisonment the criminal still has the chance(however slim) of escaping or making a successful appeal.
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Maybe I'm just naive about our justice system, but if someone makes a successful appeal, isn't the idea behind that that they are probably innocent (or at least there is a chance of it)? It's silly to try to kill someone before they get a chance to appeal, because that increases the chance of taking the life of someone who didn't commit the crime. (Spoken as though I thought it was okay to kill someone who did.)