The Death Penalty - are you for or against it and why?

[Epimethean]

Hardly, gents. If you like to spend time rubbing disease-ridden feces into open sores, very fine. If you expect me to say that is wise or sensible, you won't get it. It has zero to do with "whom I like." It has everything to do with being wise enough to say, "this thing has done no good for the human race and has harmed it on multiple occasions: Time to remove the threat permanently."

We can masturbate about the costs and the "injustice" of the system as long as we want. Perhaps it is because I have worked with that element of society (as a sheriff's deputy, corrections officer, probation officer), so I have seen the reality of it a bit more closely than many of you who sit in your houses, saying, "oh, but we dare not judge another human being to merit disposal even though it has raped or killed multiple other human beings." I dunno. Good for you to be such high minded, kind hearted individuals, but you won't be the guys stepping up to apologize when that piece of shit does it again, will you? You'll say, "well, there is this other kind of therapy we can try," or, "lock him up forever (as if that is a good solution in such cases: just build more prisons, because, if you do, they will come. Neat!) because that way we don't have blood on our hands."

I have seen too many people killed or horribly injured by people who should have been removed utterly from the planet to take such a mild mannered tack. It's a sweet illusion, and I gave it up years ago.