People support the death penalty because they believe that the criminal justice system always convicts only guilty people. Since they're certain they're good people and the people they care about are also good people, that allows them to believe that neither they nor their loved ones will ever be unjustly sentenced to death.
To date, around 170 people who were sentenced to death in American courts in cases over the last fifty years have been exonerated and released. Others have died in prison before they were exonerated; some were exonerated only after they were executed. And there's no doubt that some of those on Death Row right now are innocent of the crimes they were convicted of. Sometimes, there's no DNA evidence available which proves that someone else committed the crime. In other cases, the witnesses who committed perjury that led to conviction are still lying (possibly for self-serving reasons). And in some cases, prosecutors are continuing to conceal evidence of the person's innocence because being shown to have deliberately corrupted the justice system doesn't look good when they stand for re-election.
No criminal justice system is perfect, but the American criminal justice system is so thoroughly screwed up in so many ways that any American who supports the death penalty is demonstrating that either they're stupid or they're totally lacking in empathy. Stupid because that's what it is to believe that there's no chance at all they'll ever be charged with a capital crime, and it's only evil people who are convicted of crimes and punished. Showing a lack of empathy because they just don't give a shit if people are occasionally unjustly convicted and executed as long as they don't know them.
As for your list of crimes which you believe are deserving of death, that's pretty stupid too. Even the most repressive regimes don't sentence people to death for everything you list.
Still the idea of a death penalty keeps doors open for options. Honestly I have no problem for the death penalty it's a hell of a lot more humane than the old ways of execution (one of the many forms of agony humans made into an artform)
Sure 170 people were innocent. But that's just an 11% error rate over the last 2 centuries. That's still pretty good.
Honestly I think america prisons should be updated. Put some TVs in the prisoners cells, keep their brains on sports and other shows, rather than escape or violence.
General prison reform and justice reform too is good.
Death penalty should still be a thing in states that want that option and it should always be an option on the federal level. Your morality isnt nation wide. So it's better to keep a system that keeps all humane punishments in stock. Yes it is humane to kill a prisoner if the prisoner is proved without a doubt that they are guilty. Which still 11% error rate over 2 centuries is still pretty good. We can get that percentage hopefully to 99% for our times.
I think people deserve to die
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People support the death penalty because they believe that the criminal justice system always convicts only guilty people. Since they're certain they're good people and the people they care about are also good people, that allows them to believe that neither they nor their loved ones will ever be unjustly sentenced to death.
To date, around 170 people who were sentenced to death in American courts in cases over the last fifty years have been exonerated and released. Others have died in prison before they were exonerated; some were exonerated only after they were executed. And there's no doubt that some of those on Death Row right now are innocent of the crimes they were convicted of. Sometimes, there's no DNA evidence available which proves that someone else committed the crime. In other cases, the witnesses who committed perjury that led to conviction are still lying (possibly for self-serving reasons). And in some cases, prosecutors are continuing to conceal evidence of the person's innocence because being shown to have deliberately corrupted the justice system doesn't look good when they stand for re-election.
No criminal justice system is perfect, but the American criminal justice system is so thoroughly screwed up in so many ways that any American who supports the death penalty is demonstrating that either they're stupid or they're totally lacking in empathy. Stupid because that's what it is to believe that there's no chance at all they'll ever be charged with a capital crime, and it's only evil people who are convicted of crimes and punished. Showing a lack of empathy because they just don't give a shit if people are occasionally unjustly convicted and executed as long as they don't know them.
As for your list of crimes which you believe are deserving of death, that's pretty stupid too. Even the most repressive regimes don't sentence people to death for everything you list.
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Still the idea of a death penalty keeps doors open for options. Honestly I have no problem for the death penalty it's a hell of a lot more humane than the old ways of execution (one of the many forms of agony humans made into an artform)
Sure 170 people were innocent. But that's just an 11% error rate over the last 2 centuries. That's still pretty good.
Honestly I think america prisons should be updated. Put some TVs in the prisoners cells, keep their brains on sports and other shows, rather than escape or violence.
General prison reform and justice reform too is good.
Death penalty should still be a thing in states that want that option and it should always be an option on the federal level. Your morality isnt nation wide. So it's better to keep a system that keeps all humane punishments in stock. Yes it is humane to kill a prisoner if the prisoner is proved without a doubt that they are guilty. Which still 11% error rate over 2 centuries is still pretty good. We can get that percentage hopefully to 99% for our times.