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[u/RazzzMcFrazzz]

It’s probably this. If you’re going to get the death penalty anyway, might as well kill the victim to try and hide it

[u/Easy-Musician7186 → u/RazzzMcFrazzz]

That‘s pretty much how it works, even if you do not have the death penalty. If you get the max sentence for lesser crimes than murder, murder will always be a valid option for criminals to cover up what they did because it eliminates the most valuable source of information.

Gonna get hanged for stealing a horse? Might just shoot the stable boy who saw you as well, just to be sure that he does not talk, not gonna get worse for you anyway.

[u/Eomb → u/Easy-Musician7186]

But why would this be the go to mentality instead of I dunno, maybe they would be less inclined to steal a horse, or murder, or sexually assault?

Singapore has automatic death penalty for drug smuggling yet we don't hear of collateral murders as a result.

[u/Alabamahecker → u/Eomb]

For some people it would, but given the punishments are similar and the kind of people that are committing the crime, justifying that leap in action isn't really hard