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Originally Posted by Brianna
If a person does something really bad, like start a gang that murders/rapes/robs, etc., and then, while in prison for the murder of four people ('course, he didn't DO it!), finds Jesus and writes some children's books about "don't do what I did"--does this redeem him? Does this make it all better?
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I don't think anyone (or at least, hardly anyone) was asking for a pardon. Life in prison would have kept him out of society.
Even from a "deterrant" standpoint, the execution doesn't make sense - people on death row might start to think that reforming their lives and contributing to society might commute their death sentences to life in prison? That sounds like a good thing to me.
Now, if your view of the justice system is that it should deal in vengeance, then it makes sense. If blood must pay for blood, then reformation is irrelevant.