• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        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.