People who are against capital punishment usually cite the worry that an innocent (or themself) will be shafted and hence are against it.
People who are for usually cite resource concerns.
One focuses on preventing injustice or worries that statistically they'll be fucked over, the other just focuses on inhuman entities.
As always, this general model has limits.
I am against capital punishment on these grounds:
- the innocence problem
- the sheer body of laws in the states that ensures a large prison population; by that token, the chances of you getting incarcerated are much higher than it should be
- jingoistic shitwits who, seeing that prison costs a lot of $$$, will propose either early release (of violent felons -- drug users are mandatorily held, according to the above) which will raise the crime in a population and warrant the death penalty for a probabilistic number of the released, or propose extending the death penalty to encompass more.
You see, the act of killing a known criminal isn't a problem.
It's the capability for the state to do such brings me worry.
As is said, "Give a monkey a hammer, and everything looks like a nail, even screws."
People who are for usually cite resource concerns.
One focuses on preventing injustice or worries that statistically they'll be fucked over, the other just focuses on inhuman entities.
As always, this general model has limits.
I am against capital punishment on these grounds:
- the innocence problem
- the sheer body of laws in the states that ensures a large prison population; by that token, the chances of you getting incarcerated are much higher than it should be
- jingoistic shitwits who, seeing that prison costs a lot of $$$, will propose either early release (of violent felons -- drug users are mandatorily held, according to the above) which will raise the crime in a population and warrant the death penalty for a probabilistic number of the released, or propose extending the death penalty to encompass more.
You see, the act of killing a known criminal isn't a problem.
It's the capability for the state to do such brings me worry.
As is said, "Give a monkey a hammer, and everything looks like a nail, even screws."
