Should be used for the most heinous crimes where it's certain that the perpetrator isn't innocent.
Should be used for the most heinous crimes where it's certain that the perpetrator isn't innocent.
What do you expect from bunch of random people without law education passing judgement on you? It's not next american idol tv show, why the hell they use jury system? Or they can take Jeff Probst put people in survivor group and make them vote on who is guilty, it would have same effect.
Quick calculation from the FBI stats site:
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...e-data-table-3
Assuming "blacks" are 13% of the population (~300m) and "whites" 80%, and assuming the ratios of races are consistent (remember that in something like a third of all homicides the race of the offender is unknown), if there were no black people in the US the homicide rate would drop from 4 times the rate of other nations to a mere 2 times. Yay?
But of course, these crime rates are not adjusted for economic status. Black people are much poorer on average.
I'd say that's pretty good number, we have much better tools now and the number should be lower with new criminals.
Besides, there is a number like that for every all prisoners going from shoplifters to car thieves to fraud. Might as well release more prisoners as we wouldn't want too many "innocent" in prison. I suggest you stop living in a fairy tale and accept that every system has flaws, that doesn't make it a bad system.
I wonder how many of you have bitched about false rape accusations in a "feminazis!" thread.
I don't see this having much of anything to do with the death penalty, but rather with our determination of guilt as a whole.
I think the same way about those "criminals". The only thing different is I think if proven that someone made false accusations then that person (woman in most cases) deserves to be executed as well.
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Pretty much, otherwise they'd be talking about X amount of innocent people who are convicted and not just about the death penalty.
Regardless of anything else, death is an escape from actual punishment. That's why I don't like the death penalty. Add that to the fact that we have to kill them in the most expensive and humane way possible with innocent people sometimes dying, it really doesn't make any sense for it to exist.
I personally never understood why a bullet to the head isn't humane, it's quick and painless. And a bullet only costs a few cents. I agree that the way they used to kill you with having 10 people shoot at you is horrible, but a short distance headshot couldn't possibly hurt.