Cases in Texas and Florida have never been prosecuted. Day was returned to Tennessee, where he remains incarcerated as a lifer at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, the same prison that holds death row prisoners Coe and Workman. The message is if someone hits, then hit back and kill them. If we cross that line we will kill more and more. Violence begets violence.
Every life has supreme value.
I don't know that God makes exceptions. In the unique message of Jesus Christ, forgiveness and execution are incompatible.