Thank you for the engagement! I LOVE it when people comment on my post with a good comment.
It makes the post all worth it.

In answer to your comment, I agree with you that there must be a punishment that is "fair, just, and based on evidence" as you've put it.
In my country, the death penalty often fell short of this criteria, especially during the "apartheid" era.
We read about the black population being hanged and never about the whites. Maybe that is contributing to me feeling so strongly about doing away with the death penalty.

Surely there can be other methods of punishment that can give the criminal MANY years to ponder and suffer over what was done? Why make it easy for them?