Death Penalty

[Rockthatpiano06]

I disagree with the death penalty... I actually did a paper on this one. For one, it doesn't belong in the gov't because most of the reasons used to justify it are religious. Secondly, it is more costly doing that then keeping the person alive... half the time, even if they are guilty, they are on death row for 20 years before either they get killed or they find a glitch in the case and they are let go. Then obviously there's the fact that many innocent people die from it, that its a barbaric way to try to inflict justice, ect. ect.

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I'll start again.
Dealing specifically with the death penalty, whatever arguments are made in its favour, I would reject. The question for those who support it must be are they prepared to execute innocent people, wrongly convicted. The harsh reality that it can never be 100% certain that the actual murderer is facing execution. Sadly, I have heard supporters argue that such mistakes are a price worth paying. Well not in my world!

I'll play Devil's advocate even though I agree with you completely and argue that by executing those who have murdered, especially those who repeatedly, you are protecting those the person might kill in the future (If say the person got parole or escaped) and that would outweigh the cost of innocents killed by the death penalty.

I would say that if the person is getting paroled or escapes, that is a problem with the system, not a positive point for the death penalty. Nobody who murders should ever be allowed out of jail, and if they escape then, to say it blunty, the prison security sucks.