(June 11, 2020 at 7:54 am)Agnostico Wrote: I say no.
Killing people who kill people isn't a good image.
It also doesn't do anything to protect or deter that incarceration doesn't already do
And our justice system is geared around money. Legal costs are ridiculously high and if u can't afford them then your screwed.
On the other hand if u can afford a good defence council then the guilty can walk like OJ Simpson
But what do u think??? Should the death penalty be allowed???
It's weird, but for once, I actually agree with you. It's cruel, the possibility of executing an innocent person is too high for it to be acceptable, there's a very clear consensus among those who actually study it that it doesn't deter (funny thing, around 1993, Hong Kong abolished the death penalty and Singapore stepped it up. Shit did not change. And something tells me that when Britain had 220 total crimes punishable by death, none of their rates declined), the appeals process is extremely expensive and doing away with it would just make everything more barbaric. Literally the only reason that holds up in any way is "why should someone like Ted Bundy deserve to live?" And even that, I'd probably be okay with it being made available solely on request of the prisoner.
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