(August 14, 2018 at 2:54 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: 1) Overcrowded jails make it worth it
2) Burden on society is lessened
3) Punishment to those that fear death is still a punishment.
4) He took a life, he can give a life.
#1: Since the first hanging at Jamestown, there have only been 16,000 or so executions in all of North America. Your despotic vision of mass executions will never be realized. So far, there have been 15 or 16 executions this year in the US.
#2: How?
#3: The scientific evidence does not support this.
#4: The wrongly condemned may not agree with your sentiments.