If for any reason we absolutely must use the death penalty, it should be for repeat offenders only. That way the risk of executing an innocent person is virtually non-existent.
Mass-murderers, paedophiles and some terrorists would be obvious candidates.
Because then you get situations like the present one in Britain where the prisons are all full. A few months ago somebody not far from where I live drove over a child, then idiotically reversed back over him. He got 300 hours' community service because the prisons were full.Originally Posted by Dynast-Kid
I may just be a meanie, but I think that the death penalty is almost too good for some criminals. Why grant them freedom from punishment (i.e. death, the relief from mortal suffering), when you can throw them in jail to rot for the rest of their lives?
There are all these crimes we're constantly trying to do something about and yet plenty of potential criminals slip through our fingers and go ahead and do their deeds, and we then talk about what a dystopian society we live in. In the meantime, we continue to glamorise and condone this neat little activity known as war, something that has taken millions of lives throughout humanity's history. If we have to have no death penalty, we should stop all wars too, otherwise we humans are the biggest hypocrites ever to grace the planet. Why are we okay with potentially sentencing entire armies in another country to death, people who are ostensibly guilty of no crime but following orders (not actually a good enough excuse in my book, they shouldn't have joined the army in the first place if they don't wanna get burned for following orders) and yet we don't want to deal with our own criminals in the same way for following their own "bad" agenda? It's ridiculous.
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