Too bad execution does absolutely nothing but waste valuable slave labor and someone's life out of petty revenge.
Also assuming a black rapist/murderer wouldn't get a life sentence is crazy.
Also, if you immediately execute everyone who is, "caught in the act of a crime" or proven guilty of any crime, you'll see a bunch of people dead in their cars after being shot in the forehead by a sniper with a radar gun who caught them going 65 in a 60mph zone. Not to mention that you can't un-execute someone when new evidence 10 years later shows they were innocent (which happens sometimes). Plus, execution for any crime? Are you out of your loving mind or are you just saying something completely radical to be funny?
This is why you aren't a congressman/politician and will probably end up a car salesman or a code monkey. Don't vote.
First of all, I want to be a code monkey some day, you hit the nail on the head.
Also, if someone going 65 is shot, don't you think everyone else will slow the hell down? If a teenager is shot in the head for walking out of a store with gum he stole, do you think people are going to make off with anything more obvious?
The death rate would like quintuple in the US for the first few years, and to be frank I think there would be a fair amount of chaos, but after criminals got the message, I sincerely think that the crime rate would drop. Think of Hammurabi's Code. Think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign! Your tax dollars are paying to feed prisoners right now, and they don't get rehabilitated by jail. It makes them more angry.
Try no to think of it as 'petty revenge,' and more of a 'kill 1,000,000 to warn 311,591,917.'
They did what the had to and the country was successful.