Lets talk about how fucked up and shitty the Death Penalty is

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Lets talk about how fucked up and shitty the Death Penalty is

don longjohns: Mar 2, 2012

Infinite Karma posted:

What's the purpose of the punishment? Deterrence? Rehabilitation? Restitution? Protection of society from future crimes?

I'm sure all of the above, but the question is really what penalty best serves those ends. What about killing him is a better punishment than locking him up forever, or torturing him forever, or making him into a slave laborer? Any of those are as morally repugnant as murdering him, if not less.

Because the people who are forced by the law and their jobs to kill him do not also become murderers. Who do we hire to kill people? Why is paying someone to murder someone else only legal when the state does it?

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don longjohns: Mar 2, 2012

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/20/arkansas-fights-to-execute-two-men-without-testing-dna-evidence-that-could-exonerate-them/

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