When we get hit, we hit back.

But notice who is usually on the receiving end of the blows: why, it's the lower class!

For this reason, I have trouble being a flag-waving, bandwagon-joining death penalty fanatic.

Yet I still support the death penalty as a tool toward taming the darker impulses within us.

And because it convinces many actual murderers to accept a plea bargain arrangement for life in prison rather than force the taxpayers to endure a lengthy trial and bear the risk of an acquital based on an irrelevant technicality (like whether a cop every used the "n" word, etc.).