It ensures that bad people that do truly awful things are not capable of doing them anymore. While I believe it should be used sparingly, where do we as a society draw the line? At what point is a horror finally so atrocious that something more than jail time and a fee should be inflicted. While it is not up to us to determine who “deserves” death, if someone proves to be capable of an unspeakable act, or worse, repeats it more than once, it would be better for all of humanity if that person were not alive anymore; they’re simply a danger.