Murder? So What?

The son of Adam and Eve went bad and murder was born.  It continues today at ever increasing violence.  Why?
Perhaps we should look at what happens when a murderer is caught and brought to justice.  He may go on trial before a jury of his peers in, oh, perhaps a year.  Maybe more in today's courts. There may be every reason in the world to delay prosecution.  Lawyers are very good at putting things off.
I have a few thoughts on the subject of "Crime and Punishment" you may find worthy of consideration.  First of all, in the case of willful, 1st degree murder, which is the one that I consider the subject of this piece, I believe in the Biblical "Eye for an Eye."  However, today it seems that  society considers that to be "cruel and unusual punishment."   Shameful.  So our prisons are jammed with the guilty enjoying a life of leisure while the families of their victims suffer.
If we as a nation had the will to carry out the death penalty when the jury says "Guilty your Honor" perhaps that would slow the murder rate. For certain it would prevent a second murder by that person (as so often happens in today's "catch and release" world).
Murder has always been a capital crime.  Today we have lost the will to treat it as such!