A Catholic priest hears the confession of a death row inmate
Shoulda thought about the consequences before they did something so bad they had to be put away for life.
Research on that topic has been consistent: There is almost no murder deterrence affect from jail/death penalty. In general, people do NOT think about penalties before committing murder.
Murder is not a rational action and we shouldn't expect people who have done it to do it in a reasonable way.
When looking at "crimes of passion" where a spouse kills their loved one in a moment of high emotions; the over whelming evidence says that they weren't "thinking" at all. Their brain broke in that moment. They usually had no real control over their own actions. This happens to very normal people under high stress.
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