(August 30, 2013 at 11:51 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: I only oppose the death penalty in instances where there is any kind of likelihood of error, any shred of doubt.
A justice system is a representative body of the state, the state is a representative body of you, essentialy it is you who is killing that person.
The death penalty is also a practice not being used by a single other civilised and democratic society other than the US and Japan, it is today merely in common use amongst dictatorships and countries stuck in a more barbaric age.
The death penalty is also not a deterent, since it has shown to not lower crime rates.
Also, it is a proven fact, that the cost of the court procedures, execution staff, execution divice, retrials and other judiciary practices which would be required for the entire process to be fair and fitting to the standerds of a modern democracy, make the cost of the death penalty more than the cost of a life in prison sentence. The death penalty is only cheaper than life in prison, in countries where there is no such thing as a fair and democratic judiciary. BUT - this raises the question: Do you believe a human life can be valued in currency?
Quote:Having 13 dead bodies and a base full of people who saw it all happen and tons of witnesses and security footage and everything else that was involved with this pretty much gives 100% certainty, and with that (and only that; 99.99999~% is not enough) will I agree with the death penalty for such crimes.
Even despite the points listed above?
Quote:He isn't worth the resources to keep him alive, anyways. It's not like prison would rehabilitate him, either.
You are making the mistake of asuming that the prime function is "rehabilitation". Well certainly not in the US, which has a prison sstem that is better in creating criminals and delivering convicts to more ruthless and brutal abuse within prison walls.
A justice systems prime function is to provide safety for the inocent, and not the resocialisation - that is probably only the secondary function.
