tbh i want to see numbers, a scale of innocent put to death vs innocents murdered by released psycho's.
the one that results the least gets my support, i mean isn't that the main goal if we can never get perfection?
i also want it to be given more often to cases that are 100% clear, like good video evidence that has gone through various tampering checks.
would also like to see it be done cheap, screw being humane to the extreme, a good shotgun to the head will be perfectly humane.
Be passionate about the craft, achievements, events and community.
But do not worship the machine, pedestal nor system.
You cannot afford to be blind, for yourself and others.
Correct. I don’t see how someone who acted as judge, jury, and executioner is at all comparable to a system that divides up the responsibilities between others, so that there is (ideally) a system of checks and balances in place, and that there is a consensus decision being made, instead of just one person.
Care to try and actually explain how (you feel) they’re similar, instead of just assuming I know what you’re talking about?
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I agree. We should go back to decapitations. It's instantaneous and humane.
It's gruesome and bloody, but what do you do?
Kinda ambivalent on the death penalty myself, but I also accept that our society has decided there are certain circumstances under which taking of human life is acceptable if not desirable such as abortion, war, self-defense, etc.
It’s not perfect but I find it the most consistent view given how human societies function.
I'm not sure what this childlike fascination with killing people is.
The death penalty hasn't been proven to be a strong deterrent to performing crime.
The death penalty costs more than life in prison
The death penalty has been proven to kill innocent people
Like get your heads out of your asses lol. There's is "literally" no upside to executions short of a feeling of revenge.
Not going to argue with the few that seem to think subsidizing the likes of Peter Scully and his associates rather than the death they should have received.
I sure as hell am not going to waste time arguing with anyone that thinks...that serial murderers and such heinous offenders should have been deterred by a prison sentence. That's just wishful fantasy.
However, the Eight Amendment prohibits the penalty from scaling proportionally to the crime. So when we're discussing the very worst offenders, "what they deserve" isn't actually relevant to the discussion, because constitutionally, it can't be.
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Criminals either a) aren't thinking about the potential punishment because it's in the heat of the moment, b) can't help themselves if it's a compulsion, or c) don't think they will get caught.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
I appreciate you coming out and saying you had no business in an argument to begin with. If you're unwilling to even consider an opposing stance, you are quite literally wasting everyone's time. You'll notice people are replying to you with studies, with point by point rebuttals. And you're doing the "yea but it's justice dude". Go ahead and exit the thread all high and mighty as you intended though.
Wasn't there a whole thing where people could keep blinking for a good number of seconds after that too?
I don't know where all this focus on "keeping the body pristine" comes from as if that's related to suffering. Shotgun blow my head off if that'll be the fastest and most thorough.