Killer understands death sentence, judge told

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10. It serves to point out the absurdity, however.

"it ends a human life" doesn't really work when talking to people who support the death penalty. After all; they usually don't regard ANY criminals as human, much less men and women facing a death sentence.

You've got to slap their ego around a little bit, make some cracks in it. And mocking their presumptions and self-righteousness by pointing out the obvious flaws of their position and making fun of it actually does work. I've done it before.