- I just don’t get the obsession with the death penalty Archived Message
Posted by snipes824
on April 21, 2022, 16:17:32, in reply to "I don't mind having a death penalty"
Removing a person from society for the rest of their life is a harsh, harsh punishment. One pretty commensurate with ending a life, just more sanely. We try to draw these lines like “if we can be 100% certain,” but we can’t. We know we can’t. And that sort of nuance would never be able to be applied properly in all cases, and we’d have another conversation down the line about where to draw the line next. The safest line, and most moral in my opinion, is just no death. I don’t want death for victims, I don’t want death for perpetrators. Just no death.  Previous Messagebut if we're going to have one, there should be some protocols set up to where there is literally zero doubt of the person's guilt if it is to go through. If there is even the slightest question, and there is a lot more than that here, then there's no way an execution should be allowed. It would be a lot easier to just get rid of the death penalty than set up an appeals process that actually works. |
- bigbop85 April 21, 2022, 15:19:35