Capital punishment is not an option, ever. Life in prison is the more severe punishment. The government should not be murdering people in an act of revenge.
There’s a reason why every other developed country in the world has abolished the practice. It’s downright disgusting.
Also the fact that there’s always going to be falsely convicted people getting murdered. I can’t think of a greater injustice than sentencing someone to death for a crime they didn’t commit. I’ll rather have multiple murderers walk free than sentence an innocent man to death.
It is an option, and this isn’t the government murdering people (well, ideally), it’s society gathering to decide a person has crossed a final threshold and we must all send a clear message.
I don’t think it’s practical, I think we can’t do it now, and probably might not be able to do it again, but I do not consider it categorically unacceptable, merely unacceptable at the current time with our current political structure, and less viable as society advances.
it’s society gathering to decide a person has crossed a final threshold and we must all send a clear message.
Yet, the United States, the only western country allowing capital punishment as a form of punishment, is doing significantly worse on violent crime than all other western countries. It doesn’t work.
I think one could make an argument that socioeconomic variables abound complicated correlation.
More to the point I propose capital punishment has a great deterrent effect in smaller societies where one can point to the clear example of someone known by society, not merely an industrial level of deterrence and retribution such that we have now, where they simply become meat for the machine.
I have to agree, if only because the Southern states just use it as a legal way to kill black people.
If we could actually do it fairly it would be a possible option, but the way things are, it’s just lynching with more steps.
Capital punishment is not an option, ever. Life in prison is the more severe punishment. The government should not be murdering people in an act of revenge.
There’s a reason why every other developed country in the world has abolished the practice. It’s downright disgusting.
Also the fact that there’s always going to be falsely convicted people getting murdered. I can’t think of a greater injustice than sentencing someone to death for a crime they didn’t commit. I’ll rather have multiple murderers walk free than sentence an innocent man to death.
It is an option, and this isn’t the government murdering people (well, ideally), it’s society gathering to decide a person has crossed a final threshold and we must all send a clear message.
I don’t think it’s practical, I think we can’t do it now, and probably might not be able to do it again, but I do not consider it categorically unacceptable, merely unacceptable at the current time with our current political structure, and less viable as society advances.
Yet, the United States, the only western country allowing capital punishment as a form of punishment, is doing significantly worse on violent crime than all other western countries. It doesn’t work.
I think one could make an argument that socioeconomic variables abound complicated correlation.
More to the point I propose capital punishment has a great deterrent effect in smaller societies where one can point to the clear example of someone known by society, not merely an industrial level of deterrence and retribution such that we have now, where they simply become meat for the machine.