The fact is that those states without capital punishment have lower murder rates than those with.
Paul Hill is no great loss to the world, but now the smug bastard is a martyr for some people. Women's clinics all over Florida have had to beef up security, because of the execution.
I would be just as happy if the louse had been obliged to spend his life doing disagreeable jobs, changing adult diapers, cleaning public restrooms, scrubbing garage floors, without any possibility of parole.
I'm a freelance writer. I've been plagarized. I've had pieces rewritten so they weren't my work anymore. I was done serious dirt by a friend who asked me to write the book for her musical. Outside of threatening people with my sister the lawyer, there isn't much I can do. There's a lot I'd like to do, but it's mostly illegal, and rightly so. Revenge just isn't a good idea.