"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
A fair and just society has every right to permanently remove those who commit the ulltimate sin and crime in that society...period. Life in prison will not prevent that person from committing murder again. Murderers have escaped prisons and killed again. Murderers have killed others in prison. The chance of that can only be eliminated by executing murderers.