Or it could serve as notice that criminals won't kill their victims to remove witnesses to their crimes because a death sentence is no longer feared. Notice that it does nothing to deter crime, it only serves as providing no incentive to kill witnesses. Some people are ok with this, a high crime rate but less murders, still with no way to deter crime.
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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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