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Pittsburgh synagogue gunman gets death penalty (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have two major oppositions to capital punishment, and neither are rooted in the possibility of rehabilitation or not.

The state is not infallible. If you put someone into prison for ten years and find out you messed up, you can at least release them. You can't give them those years back, but you can try to do right by them as much as you are able. You execute the wrong person? You're just a murderer.
Personally, life in prison (and not a cushy wall street exec prison) seems like a way worse punishment. Even if I was only concerned with providing somebody the worst possible punishment, lifetime imprisonment would be worse.

Mostly though for me, it is number 1.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Your reply has changed my mind about corporal punishment and I am starting to agree with you. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And the kind of people willing to commit crimes that would deserve death are not likely to be deterred by the potential punishment.