Texas executes man in murder of liquor store clerk

[branford]

17. Your post indicates the only considerations you believe should be relevant for policies

dealing with violent criminals are potential deterrence and community safety. That is insufficient.

I and most others, regardless of whether they support capital punishment, believe that criminals should also face penalties as actual punishment for their individual deeds outside of any deterrence factors or community protection.

It's totally irrelevant if they later find God, write children's books, cure cancer, or anything else, some crimes should guarantee permanent and automatic punishments. The deliberate murder of an innocent during the commission of an armed felony could certainly warrant such a severe penalty.

I care little if Gustavo Garcia died of natural causes in a tiny prison cell or by a needle administered by the State, so long as his guilt was certain, justice was served.

However, if you want to abolish capital punishment, also effectively arguing against life without parole as a potential penalty is a strategy doomed to fail in the USA, particularly where one of the most convincing arguments against the death penalty is the existence of LWOP and that sufficiently protects the community, deters similar crimes, and actually punishes the offender.