While I agree that it's solid they committed the crime, it's becoming more and more apparent that they can manipulate the truth to the point where we think we know it for absolute, yet it isn't. Food for thought.

IMO death penalty ONLY when the risk is extreme that they may be able to escape and continue to inflict.

That said, I do believe in more serious non-lethal punishments for the most depraved elements of society. If anything, I think it's better than the death penalty because they'd likely embrace death over it.

What's more, even if they're the most vile "people" around, they can still be useful. If they can pick up a shovel, they can dig.

Instead of costing society more by death penalty-ing them for costing people/society as it is, they should be made to attempt to repay the debt that they have incurred; such a debt cannot be repaid, of course, but the closer they can get the better.