Again I'll say I am for it, simply for the fact there are situations where people are beyond rehabilitation. But I doubt would be murderers weigh the consequences of their actions.
My biggest problem with capital punishment isn't that it is wrong to kill guilty people who deserve it, it is that sometimes innocent people get wrongly executed. Our justice system isn't perfect and we accept that. We do our best to make sure only the truly guilty get convicted, but sometimes, the justice system fails. Sometimes an innocent person is sent to jail. Imprisoning an innocent person is bad enough, but killing an innocent person is not something I could ever condone the state having the power to do.
"We could have a higher burden of proof for executions or we could only allow executions if there is a confession." We have already tried that and there have still been hundreds of innocent people executed. I know when you look at the number of criminals prosecuted in the history of the US, a few hundred is an extremely small number, but that number is still too high for me. One innocent person being killed is too high for me.
If there was a guaranteed way to ensure that only guilty people would be executed, then I would support it, but there isn't. I'm willing to accept that sometimes our justice system fails and innocent people are sent to jail. We do our best to prevent that and we try to make it right when it is found out an innocent person is sent to jail. But if an innocent person is killed, there is no way of making that right. The cost of one innocent person being killed is a price too high to pay. I'd rather have all the criminals who deserve to be executed to spend their life in prison than allow even a single innocent person to be wrongfully executed.
I'm not willing to sacrifice even a single person just to kill criminals who deserve it instead of just keeping them in a deep dark hole for the rest of their lives. Whatever justice could be done by killing someone who deserves it is never enough to make up for the loss of one innocent life taken by the hands of the government.
You make a lot of good points. It's very sad to hear that people have been coerced to false guilty pleas in hopes of reducing penalties or simply giving up fighting what seems like an impossible battle, and end up getting executed.
What if the only acceptable evidence to convict someone to execution was video footage of the crime? Such as a footage of a mass shooter at a public space?
I havent fully rationalized my position on capital punishment yet, but I'm inclined to agree with it. There are some people beyond rehabilitation.
It's also a deterrent. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Firing squad might be a good deterrent!
Again I'll say I am for it, simply for the fact there are situations where people are beyond rehabilitation. But I doubt would be murderers weigh the consequences of their actions.
Yep. Tell me this guy didn't deserve death: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chase
Jesus never heard that story.
Hence the new animal cruelty law, these mentally ill people show signs early.
My biggest problem with capital punishment isn't that it is wrong to kill guilty people who deserve it, it is that sometimes innocent people get wrongly executed. Our justice system isn't perfect and we accept that. We do our best to make sure only the truly guilty get convicted, but sometimes, the justice system fails. Sometimes an innocent person is sent to jail. Imprisoning an innocent person is bad enough, but killing an innocent person is not something I could ever condone the state having the power to do.
"We could have a higher burden of proof for executions or we could only allow executions if there is a confession." We have already tried that and there have still been hundreds of innocent people executed. I know when you look at the number of criminals prosecuted in the history of the US, a few hundred is an extremely small number, but that number is still too high for me. One innocent person being killed is too high for me.
If there was a guaranteed way to ensure that only guilty people would be executed, then I would support it, but there isn't. I'm willing to accept that sometimes our justice system fails and innocent people are sent to jail. We do our best to prevent that and we try to make it right when it is found out an innocent person is sent to jail. But if an innocent person is killed, there is no way of making that right. The cost of one innocent person being killed is a price too high to pay. I'd rather have all the criminals who deserve to be executed to spend their life in prison than allow even a single innocent person to be wrongfully executed.
I'm not willing to sacrifice even a single person just to kill criminals who deserve it instead of just keeping them in a deep dark hole for the rest of their lives. Whatever justice could be done by killing someone who deserves it is never enough to make up for the loss of one innocent life taken by the hands of the government.
You make a lot of good points. It's very sad to hear that people have been coerced to false guilty pleas in hopes of reducing penalties or simply giving up fighting what seems like an impossible battle, and end up getting executed.
What if the only acceptable evidence to convict someone to execution was video footage of the crime? Such as a footage of a mass shooter at a public space?