The Great Communicator. Keeping Thugs out of the News Another benefit of the death penalty. New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service.
Capital punishment deters others from committing such offenses.
It also saves tax dollars that otherwise would finance baked beans, free weights and cable TV for those on death row. Three well-known hoodlums recently have returned to the headlines. He's absolutely right. This demented rat deserves 100,000 volts of electroshock therapy. I think he would care.