Monolithium said:

http://www.skcentral.com/articles.php?article_id=6

This is a transcript of an audio recording that serial killers Larry Bittaker & Roy Norris made of one of their victims.

Raped her. Murdered her. Dumped her.

These guys deserve an equal punishment for what they did. Since it would be "wrong" to do to them what they did to her, the death penalty will have to do.

If death is the penalty for being caught doesn't that make murder the better option for a rapist or a child molester?

There are people who would be prone to murder their victims anyway but if the crime was opportunistic rather than part of sadistic lifestyle and death is the punishment wouldn't such a criminal want as few witnesses as possible?

On every level the Death Penalty just doesn't make sense to me, containment (possibly permanent) makes much more sense.