The death penalty is barbaric

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Carry on...
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[at140]

1. Yeah any forced death is barbaric

Including brutal murders without consent of the victim.

[edhopper]

6. But bloody supports that

and it is not sanctioned by the State. At least domestically.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Most murderers need to be separated from society for life.

We can achieve that without becoming murderers ourselves.

[brooklynite]

16. How do you feel about solitary confinement?

Some people (here) think that's equally barbaric. If a convicted murderer is physically healthy, do they deserve anything more than that?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. That's a hard one.

Amnesty International has called for an end to prolonged solitary confinement. Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the worst of the worst seems like enough.

[brooklynite]

18. If sentenced to life without parole, what can you do to prevent violent behavior in gen pop?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. Solitary confinement.

If a lifer breaks the rules while in the general population then solitary confinement is an appropriate escalation in punishment.

[ck4829]

2. It's our form of, no really, it's our human sacrifice

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We do it because some lawmakers are convinced it will lower the crime rate through deterring or what-have-you. It has a supernatural effect according to our society.

It’s also filled with rituals; death row, the last meal, the chamber, filling out the final appeals, etc.

Critical Race Theory

[Maru Kitteh]

3. The state should not have legal power to commit pre-meditated murder

on its own citizens.

[USALiberal]

4. Disgusting how many DUers are ok with it! Nt

[Treefrog]

31. Perhaps you've not noticed how many here gleefully call for rapes, beatings, and deaths in jail.

Never mind the also gleeful posts about unfazed people dying.

[Skittles]

5. the Catholic Churh is fine giving Communion to those who support it

imagine that

[Red Mountain]

9. Priorities

I'm not entirely sure theirs are defensible.

I'd be fine with capital punishment if it was the inevitable consequence of it having been imposed in error.

Judge, prosecutor, DA.......there should be consequences.

People have been executed in error.

[randr]

7. The whole judicial system

Is midevial.

[ShazamIam]

8. Yes, barbaric and immoral and with the for profit prisons/slave labor, our nation's shame.

[wcmagumba]

10. Disgusts me, I'm a buddhist/part quaker in spirit sometimes active and find killing other humans...

by state structured premeditation supremely wrong...

[Scrivener7]

12. It's also very stupid from a purely pragmatic standpoint. It costs multiples more to

execute a prisoner than it does to incarcerate someone for life.

Someone like Ted Bundy, for example, who people will point to as a perfect example of why they want the death penalty? My answer is that I wouldn't want to pay more than necessary to keep him from killing more women. Jailing him for life would have been much cheaper.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I know a lot of people claim to be Christian.

Don't they have a holy book that has some kind of rule about not killing? I think they call it a Commandment? I have never seen that rule printed out with a lot of footnotes or fine print explaining when it is okay to kill. I wonder why?

[Mariana]

28. They have a holy book that has some kind of rule about not killing

and then, according to the same book, God proceeds to command that the death penalty be imposed for all sorts of transgressions.

[Silver Swan]

14. I have always been against capital punishment

But once in a while, I believe in cruel and unusual punishment!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. One time around 1980 my mom and I were in the waiting room of a car dealership.

I think I influenced her politics as much as she influenced mine. Anyway a Phil Donahue show on the death penalty was on and the people in the waiting room could tell by my facial expressions I clearly opposed it. Somebody said something when I left the room and my mom said if that's the way he feels that's the way he feels. I am extremely uncomfortable in the taking of life in any instance with the emphasis on any.

[Blue Owl]

19. What's ridiculous is the number of anti-abortionists who are pro-death penalty

Talk about conflicted…

[Calculating]

23. The innocent unborn vs murderers

Tough one

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Pretty much the whole criminal justice system is. But abolishing the death penalty would be a start.

[Calculating]

22. Some crimes are so absolutely awful they deserve it

I'll always have this opinion. It's an insult to the family of the victim, and offends me that some filth are breathing the same air as actual humans.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. What about all the people on death row who have been exonerated?

Some after spending decades on death row.

[Calculating]

25. A lot of that was mistakes made before modern DNA testing and forensics

And IMO the death penalty is given out far too often, and too delayed. It should only be given for the really extreme crimes where there's very strong proof of guilt, and then carried out quickly. IE, I wouldn't give the death penalty for simple murders/robberies gone bad/etc. Stuff like murdering children, serial killers, really disturbing murders, etc...Fry em.

[at140]

27. DNA evidence is 99.999% accurate

Gone are the pre-DNA days when people were sentenced to harsh penalties based on eye-witnesses alone.

[GulfCoast66]

26. The inherent barbarism of the death penalty and its capricious use started me on the road

From conservative to social democrat. 25 years ago. It was a slow road but that was the initiating factor. Once one fallacy is exposed to an honest person they all go.

It’s indefensible without giving up part of your humanity.

[mvd]

29. Agreed

I am both morally and practically against it.

And for all these states who want to give people another option because they can’t do lethal injection, if it’s all about having the execution they might as well have stoning, the guillotine and being eaten by lions as options.

Death penalty should just go away.

[RegularJam]

30. Barbaric.

Accurate word to use.

Says s lot about our society.