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It's a hard question. What if you lived somewhere without any social provision so that if you had nothing and were convicted of murder and gaoled for life at least you have board and lodging and not starving on the street? In that situation would the death penalty not be a more real deterrent to killing while committing a lesser crime?

True this does not quite apply here, so I would be against the death penalty. There is far too much chance of a wrong conviction which is very hard to overturn. Plus add all the time spent with appeals on death-row you could end up with long term incarceration and then a death penalty. We may need an approach that better rehabilitates those convicted with appropriate longer terms as needed.