The Death Penalty!

[Anomalocaris]

What do you all think of the death penalty for high level criminals & consistent re-offenders.

I am pro-death penalty - particularly for high level criminals, which I consider to be
mass-murderers, serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, and so on.

I do not believe that people like those listed above should be taken care of for the remainder of their lives.

Except the death penalty appeal process is more costly by a factor of 3 then feeding and housing an inmate incarcerated for life in a maximum security facility. We are rightly highly concerned with taking a unjustly condemned life by mistake. The process in place to prevent that, which demonstrably does not work anywhere close to 100% of the time, already cost far more than simply keeping that life living for its natural life expectancy. I find it unacceptable tolerate any increased attrition rate amongst those unjustly condemned to save cost. So I think the logical solution is to incarcerate for life all those who would have been executed. It keeps the criminals off the street for 1/3 the cost, and prevents execution of unjustly condemned.

My fundamental principle is it is acceptable to let 100 deserving criminals escape death penalty in order to prevent one unjustly condemned men from being executed.

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By the way, a pet peeve: Don't confuse a civil society with a civilized society. A civil society is a society conforming to a certain set of standards and are therefore considered genteel, while a civilized society is one which has achieved a certain level of complexity and sophistication in organization, culture, productivity, arts and craft. A society can be highly civilized while completely uncivil, as in societies with sophisticated math, art, organization, and architecture but which practice human sacrafice on a large scale; or completely civil while quite uncivilized, as in a bunch of hunter gatherers who are very nice, polite and rule abiding.