I get it. You read some true crime news about some scumbag who tortures his own babies to death and think: take him out back and shoot him in the head. One and done. Easy.
But the reality of the death penalty is the U.S.A. is more like this:
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...