I agree that we use the death penalty too often, and often for the wrong reasons, but I would never want that option to be permanently off the table.
There are some people so heinous, that they need to be removed for the good of society. Leaving them alive only emboldens those who think like them. Child Rapist/Murders, Serial Killers, Torture Killers, Actual Treason, and a few others EARN their death penalties, and as a society, we need to eliminate them, and end any influence on our society and culture.
We should only use it a handful of times in a decade, and only in cases where there is no dispute at all. The inmate should have the benefit of a last comprehensive review of their case by a panel of judges, and any chances to use improved technology, DNA, etc. If the death sentence holds up, then it should be a national event, followed on the news, and everybody in the nation should know what we are doing, and why. We should all be a part of it, as a nation.
I remember when those two numbskulls in Connecticut home invaded that family, tied them up, raped the mother and daughters all night, then set the house on fire. The father escaped, called the authorities from the neighbor’s house, and the cops and fire Dept rolled up, just as these dipshits ran out of the burning house. They were caught LITERALLY red-handed, and then immediately confessed by blaming the other guy.
I had a lot of conversations online about that crime, and one thing that was common among Connecticut residents was that they regretted getting rid of the death penalty because even though they didn’t like it, they ALL thought these guys deserved it.
We shouldn’t surrender our ultimate option, just because it makes us uncomfortable. It SHOULD make us uncomfortable, but we have a responsibility as a society to not limit our own defenses. Those who attack our society will not respect our "humanity,"they will exploit it.
No matter how horrible the crime Is, time and again, the conclusion is death penalty is still a bad thing.
In the list of things going wrong about killing innocents, you have human errors, bias towards minorities (on purpose or not), framing individuals, abuse of power, and plain political weaponization.
On the policy side, you think you would restrain it to the most horrendous crimes. Look at the current climate in the US administration: criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “the same as” wishing all Jews dead, and they started comparing Trump to God.
Normalize the death penalty, and see a bench of crimes labelled horrible enough to warrant a death sentence. That may still come, but the fact that today, death penalty is not normalized prevents them from going there faster.
If you want to remove individuals from society, you still have lifelong prison. At least there, society gets a change to mitigate its mistakes.
I agree that we use the death penalty too often, and often for the wrong reasons, but I would never want that option to be permanently off the table.
There are some people so heinous, that they need to be removed for the good of society. Leaving them alive only emboldens those who think like them. Child Rapist/Murders, Serial Killers, Torture Killers, Actual Treason, and a few others EARN their death penalties, and as a society, we need to eliminate them, and end any influence on our society and culture.
We should only use it a handful of times in a decade, and only in cases where there is no dispute at all. The inmate should have the benefit of a last comprehensive review of their case by a panel of judges, and any chances to use improved technology, DNA, etc. If the death sentence holds up, then it should be a national event, followed on the news, and everybody in the nation should know what we are doing, and why. We should all be a part of it, as a nation.
I remember when those two numbskulls in Connecticut home invaded that family, tied them up, raped the mother and daughters all night, then set the house on fire. The father escaped, called the authorities from the neighbor’s house, and the cops and fire Dept rolled up, just as these dipshits ran out of the burning house. They were caught LITERALLY red-handed, and then immediately confessed by blaming the other guy.
I had a lot of conversations online about that crime, and one thing that was common among Connecticut residents was that they regretted getting rid of the death penalty because even though they didn’t like it, they ALL thought these guys deserved it.
We shouldn’t surrender our ultimate option, just because it makes us uncomfortable. It SHOULD make us uncomfortable, but we have a responsibility as a society to not limit our own defenses. Those who attack our society will not respect our "humanity,"they will exploit it.
No matter how horrible the crime Is, time and again, the conclusion is death penalty is still a bad thing.
In the list of things going wrong about killing innocents, you have human errors, bias towards minorities (on purpose or not), framing individuals, abuse of power, and plain political weaponization.
On the policy side, you think you would restrain it to the most horrendous crimes. Look at the current climate in the US administration: criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “the same as” wishing all Jews dead, and they started comparing Trump to God.
Normalize the death penalty, and see a bench of crimes labelled horrible enough to warrant a death sentence. That may still come, but the fact that today, death penalty is not normalized prevents them from going there faster.
If you want to remove individuals from society, you still have lifelong prison. At least there, society gets a change to mitigate its mistakes.