This was not unexpected.
The death penalty challenges at the state level have been continually upheld, so there's no reason to thin kit wouldn't have als been done so at the federal level.
Okay, that's a bit extreme.
The death penalty for Murder 1 is one thing, but for the rest is a bit extreme, and certainly not within the legal boundaries of the punishment fitting the crime.
Except for armed robbery, I agree with Justified.
It sure would take care of our overcrowding situation in the prisons and I wouldn't have to pay for a murderer to live the rest of his life, possibly mocking the victim's family (as has been the case with Charles Manson) in prison.
Then you'd be happy to know that in Los Angeles County, the total cost of capital punishment is $2,087,926, while the total cost of life imprisonment without possibility of parole is $1,448,935.
That cost difference is consistent across the country.
We could make that cost a lot less.
How much would a rope, a tree branch, and a chair cost.
We could even recycle the noose.
It would even be environmentally friendly... :D
I've never had much problem with capitol punishment.
Salvation issues?
The threat of imminant death, I believe, would tend to make a person get serious about the next life to come, and counterbalence the advantage of having a long life to maybe someday get saved.
People condemned that are innocent?
Many people are motivated to carefully check the prisoners on death row that are condemned to die who would leave innocent lifers languishing their whole life in prison.
On the other hand, I think increasing the odds criminals will get caught and judged will do more to reduce crime than increasing threats if we do manage to catch them.
As for the biblical history on this subject, I do not see us ever going to capitol punishment to the same degree as specified in Israel's old testament law, which reflected conditions where they did not even have very much imprisonment as punishment.
It was all fines, restitution, and capital punishment.