Death Penalty Grinds On

After serving time for killing his wife, much less than he originally was sentenced per a now overturned Texan law [depressingly unsurprising biographic materials included] , William Earl Rayford was sentenced to die for murdering his ex-girlfriend. After over eighteen years, he was executed last night. After the usual SCOTUS orders. Don't see much justice in this, or public safety much furthered by arbitrarily eventually executing this far from "worst of the worst" (a colloquial assumption of whom deserves to be executed that does fit various people on death row) individual. I say this without shedding any tears for him personally.

ETA: Another one, this one with children involved. So, special aggravation. Public safety is really not furthered here -- threat of execution isn't really why one would not kill their young kids. As to retribution, eventually executing a few such heinous murderers doesn't do much for me net. Plus, system as a whole retains all its problems. I again am not shedding tears for this person specifically. Again maybe there is something else wrong buried in the record.