• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    My friend, if death is the punishment for a single murder, what’s stopping them from killing 2 people? 3? 4? 10?

    When you dole out a “this is the worst we can do to you” punishment, there’s no reason to stop. This concept actually increases the chances of crime, because “fuck it, I’m gonna die anyway.”

    It’s also extremely short sighted. For every ~9 inmates found guilty and sentenced to death, 1 is exonerated. And that isn’t even mentioning the number of people who have been executed who were proven innocent after the fact.

    How about we just make the chances of killing an innocent person 0% by no longer executing people?