"the pain and the heartache of losing a loved one through these crimes is not acceptable"
I would say that the pain and heartbreak of losing a loved one by any crime is not acceptable, and indeed it's fairly unpleasant losing a loved one to anything, crime or not.
I would also say that capital punishment only causes more people to lose their loved ones - gun and knife criminals probably have mothers, fathers, lovers, siblings, etc., too ...
But I suppose one shouldn't be all that sarcastic; at a guess, the petitioner himself has lost someone to something like this. Which being assumed to be so, he's got to be permitted a little irrationality.
That doesn't make it a good idea, however. Two wrongs do not make a right.
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