Caroline Downey on Death Penalty Debate: ‘You Need to Deter and Prosecute and Punish Crimes Proportionate to the Offence’

RUSH EXCERPT:

DOWNEY: “I don’t understand that. From a limited government perspective, it is true that the state has a monopoly on violence against its citizens. But we are talking about the most heinous, agree just, depraved crimes that would deserve that kind of sentence and any functioning republic and society. You need to deter and prosecute and punish crimes proportionate to the offence. So that they are prevented from happening in the future. And the death penalty is, of course, what happens when you do murder someone. Because that is directly the proportionate punishment for that. And when it comes to firing squads, I have seen some discourse about that. Weagle injections cost the taxpayers an exorbitant amount of money. Is a very expensive program to”