The death penalty makes no sense.

[Javaman]

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rate...tate#MRord


Here is a link that gives the murder rates by state based on statistics compiled by the FBI. Quite handily, states where the death penalty is abolished are highlighted in yellow. One notices immediately that there seems to be no correlation between the implementation of the death penalty and murder. To the contrary, states that implement the death penalty tend to have higher murder rates (on average). Eight of the ten states with the lowest murder rate have no death penalty. Thus arguments that value capital punishment as a deterrent have this to contend with.

Once you take deterrence out of the equation, the arguments in favor of the death penalty are pretty slim. Mooney said in an earlier post "you took a life so you can give one." That reasoning doesn't quite add up. First off, it's "revenge thinking." Second of all, not everyone who is executed is guilty of the crime. If someone is wrongly executed for the crime of murder, should their surviving family members have the right to pick a couple of members of the jury to be executed?

I have an idea. How about whenever someone is found to be wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, we randomly pull a name from the pool of prosecutors and have them executed?