Atheist and the Death penalty

[Thumpalumpacus]

Argumentum ad populum is still fallacious reasoning.

No one is arguing that more people believing it makes it so, only that it is statistically true.  You apparently don't understand why logical fallacies are logical fallacies.

The last sentence of the quote of yours I posted demonstrates to me that you don't even recognize when you practice them, never mind considering why they are what they are. Clean up your own back-yard, and then we can talk about fallacies. In the meantime, quit practicing them.

Wrongful imprisonment can be at least partially repaired ... wrongful killing, not so much.

No amount of money can ever give back years spent wrongfully behind bars.  None.  Do try again.

Except I never said that it could, which is exactly why I wrote "at least partially".

The name of that fallacy, in case you're curious, is the straw-man fallacy.

You'll do better to answer the points that I make, rather than the ones you impute.

So what you're saying is that it doesn't deter the crime, it prevents recidivism. Those are two entirely different things.

Yep.  I do not think there is a true deterrent for anything.  Put your hand in a fire and it burns right now.  Chances are pretty good that one would not do that again.  But then again, they did do it the first time.  And of course the 'crimes of passion' have no deterrent.

There are some people that just need removed from society for the betterment of all.  But the 'trail of evidence' of evidence needs to be more a lot more solid than it is in a lot of cases, even for extensive prison sentences.  When they sit there with a shit eatin' grin and say "hell yeah!", then burn 'em.  But, IMHO, 20-30+ years in prison is a death sentence in itself.  When they come out (even if they were innocent from the get go), they have no job, skills are old, no family most likely, house, car, bank account all gone and the reputation that will keep them from regaining all that.  The biggest problem there is that when any try to get a job, the "have you been convicted of any felonies"" on the job application, makes it almost impossible to get any 'legal' work.

Quite frankly, I think capital sentences should not have any opportunity for release back into society.

BTW - (capital punishment does keep a previous offender from recidivism.  sounds like a deterrent to me.)

Wrong. A deterrent is " A thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something."

Dead people cannot be discouraged. Ergo, the death penalty is not a deterrent.

Deterrence happens when the person considers committing a crime, and decides against it based on the consequences. You're using the word wrong, because dead people cannot consider anything at all. The death penalty is a preventative for re-offenses, but it clearly does not deter murder.