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I guess my mom's teachings over the years sunk in.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Killing someone because they killed someone else (or 2 people, 4 people or 100 people) doesn't make it right. If it is self defense at the time, that's a protective, survival instinct (although I don't think I could do it under any circumstance).
It is well known that states who implemented the death penalty saw no difference in crime rate. That is what is meant by deterrant. Tookie wasn't going to kill anybody else and he may have been preventing others from doing it in the future. Even in cases where the inmate is still a violent person, keeping them in isolation would prevent the possibility of them killing again.
Take away due process from this and then we kill even more innocent people. If it is found that someone is innocent after they were executed, who do we execute then? The executioner? The jury? The prosecuting attorney?
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