Re: Death penalty

> So you only see the death penalty as vengeance?

Of course, as that's precisely what it is. It serves no useful social
purpose, neither as a deterrent nor as an implementation of justice.

***I will never understand that attitude.  Sure, let's make the standard that if
you kill, you get to be fed and housed forever.  Yea that will stop them.

*** the biggest block to it providing deterrence is really the fact that it is
not a realistic punishment with the decades of appeals and legal bs.

***But I will say that if the only thing it actually deters is one bastard from
killing again, it is fine with me.

It *is* more economical than imprisonment, but that's not the same as
being useful (and, at any rate, the question of economics has no place
in a debate about taking human life).

**fwiw DP opponents say the opposite, that life in prison is more economical.

The death penalty has no function other than to serve as a
state-sanctioned act of vengeance, which provides closure for those
deprived and satisfaction for those interested.

**So justice is truly hollow?



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