They purposefully commit the crime so that they are sentenced to death and executed, but seemingly made the decision to be killed by themselves before even being handed the verdict. Daniel Cowell in 1996 decided that he couldn’t kill himself and rather would die at the hands of the state of Georgia, so he picked a couple in a parking lot and killed them and was later executed but basically took his own life. This is also a reason why capital punishment does not deter crime, a small portion of the reason but a plausible one
They purposefully commit the crime so that they are sentenced to death and executed, but seemingly made the decision to be killed by themselves before even being handed the verdict. Daniel Cowell in 1996 decided that he couldn’t kill himself and rather would die at the hands of the state of Georgia, so he picked a couple in a parking lot and killed them and was later executed but basically took his own life. This is also a reason why capital punishment does not deter crime, a small portion of the reason but a plausible one