2 wrongs DO NOT make a right... Also, the second wasted life could have been used to attempt to repay the family of the first... Certainly not gulag, work till you drop kind of labor, but this hotel 3 squares a day is a bit much... Plus they learn nothing to reform their poor decisions that led to someone's death... Also it sets the precedent, that it's OK for some people to kill other people, if they're in the right class of society... No matter how complicated the rube goldberg execution machine is...  Also, abolishing the death penalty is probably not the answer either.  I say restructure it. Make it functional... Let the "utopians" who love to do centralized planning, experiment here instead of on the general populace.  Test the next "vaccine" on death row, instead of every newborn baby.  Of course it needs to be "voluntary-ish" without any Mengele type experiments... Maybe this is too far, but the current "early-retirement", corporate run, gang incubators have got to stop.  We've got enough movie material now...