Black Sword wrote:I ponder if perhaps starting from scratch would be a good thing.
Black Sword wrote:Execution is cheaper than forced labor, by the way
BenoitRen wrote:Black Sword wrote:Execution is cheaper than forced labor, by the way
It may be cheaper, but it's still legalised murder, and it doesn't help to deter criminals. Worse, it often kills innocent people.
BenoitRen wrote:It may be cheaper, but it's still legalised murder, and it doesn't help to deter criminals. Worse, it often kills innocent people.
carlsojos wrote:Drawing back to the primary topic, what good is it to start from scratch if the slate winds up getting wiped every other Thursday?
Black Sword wrote:Somehow, the "legalized murder" argument doesn't hold much ground when the illegal murders are quite often more horrific and the murderers rarely have anything positive to contribute.
Why is the sociopath who slaughtered and raped children allowed to spend the rest of his life in jail at your expense? How is that justice?
Executions have an error rate of 3%. I'm not fond of the idea of sending innocent people to their deaths, but human systems are imperfect. Wanting it to be a perfect system is not helpful.
Black Sword wrote:My snarky answer is: gainful employment for a new generation of historians.
BenoitRen wrote:Black Sword wrote:Somehow, the "legalized murder" argument doesn't hold much ground when the illegal murders are quite often more horrific and the murderers rarely have anything positive to contribute.
My point is that it's still murder regardless.
Why is the sociopath who slaughtered and raped children allowed to spend the rest of his life in jail at your expense? How is that justice?
How is killing someone justice? "You killed someone, so we kill you." That's not a solution. It's barbaric. But I agree that instead of putting people into jail to rot, we should treat them and make them realise what they've done.
I also find it weird that people always complain about their tax money being spent on prisoners every time this gets discussed. As their tax money is worth more all of a sudden.
Executions have an error rate of 3%. I'm not fond of the idea of sending innocent people to their deaths, but human systems are imperfect. Wanting it to be a perfect system is not helpful.
Executing innocent people is unacceptable. Furthermore, it's not always about a margin of error. Try the police hellbent on having someone guilty and planting evidence to make them so in trial. Cases like these are common, and if they weren't executed by the time it was clear that they were innocent, they would still be alive.
I should also mention that the USA is one of the few civilised countries in the world that still has a death penalty. That should tell you something.
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