Further, keeping a criminal alive in jail indefinitely doesn't necessarily stop them. If they don't have any hope of getting out, then they have nothing to lose. I've spoken to people who've worked on parole boards, and one of them recounted how, with one man, he said, "Keep denying him parole, so he can't get out, but always promise it'll be considered next time his case comes up. If we don't keep considering it, we're putting the guards and other prisoners at risk."

Killing the repeat offenders, and not holing them up where they have nothing to lose, is a justice to the people, and to the killers, most of whom aren't so much evil and malicious as mentally ill, and permanently unable to function in society.

I hate the idea of using the death sentence myself, but it's a necessary tool to protect the people.

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In the crazy lands between awakening and sleep, I wait, and I think on everything Zelda.

"Let fear be cast into the hearts of our enemy.
Let them lose all hope and let their heart sink into the unending darkness.
Let them have no will to live.
Let them feel the power of the Sages of Despair!"