The only downside is the possibility of wrongful convictions. Other than that, it's for sure the cheapest way to deal with murderers and pedophiles.
Does capital punishment have a net benefit?
Asher Ross
Hudson Ward
Lawfag here. No. The death penalty achieves nothing that life imprisonment doesn't achieve just as well. The sole function of the death penalty is to slake the bloodlust of out-of-touch "tough on crime" boomers whose only interaction with the justice system is the fucking newspaper.
There is no rational argument that supports the death penalty, but supporting the death penalty is a personality/identity issue and so the fact that it is irrational ultimately doesn't matter. Supporting the death penalty makes you a "certain kind of person" and some people want to be that certain kind of person so much that they don't mind turning themselves into an idiot in the process.
The death penalty has no additional deterrent effect because people who think they might get caught don't commit crimes in the first place. The only people who actually commit crimes are the ones who believe they'll get away with it. That's why harsh sentences have been shown in the empirical data time and time again to have essentially zero deterrent effect.
This post will change nobody's mind and I have achieved nothing here today - which, ironically, is why I think we should dispense with the political debates and just start killing each other. There is a small minority of the population who are abrasive, aggressive, and too ignorant to be helped. I firmly believe we should just gas them. Supporting the death penalty beyond reason is a great indicator that you belong to that population and I would happily and unironically kill every single person in this thread who continues to support it after reading this post. If I could press a button and have you just fucking die, I absolutely would.
Juan Ward
there is no reason to have life sentences
all life sentences should be executions
execution is cheaper its just all u greedy fuckers milking the system that make it expensive
Levi Davis
>I don't believe in killing people as a solution
>Some people do believe this
>Those people are dumb
>The only solution to this impasse is for people to start killing each other
Your logic is beyond flawed, this coming from someone who is 100% opposed to the wasteful act of justice/vengeance killings.
Andrew Moore
I don't give a fuck about net benefit I give a fuck about killing cunts.
Isaac Garcia
It's certainly not a deterrant. The only thing it accomplishes is making sure the condemned doesn't commit more crime and save a bit of money because you no longer have to house him.
Nolan Sullivan
as if anyone needed any more proof that lawyers are duplicitous slime
Jonathan Lewis
>This post will change nobody's mind and I have achieved nothing here today - which, ironically, is why I think we should dispense with the political debates and just start killing each other.
How can I vote for you, my dude?
Matthew Murphy
I think we should livestream executions pay per view thing. I'd unironically pay money to see all the snowtown killers get hung.
Connor Hall
>Your logic is beyond flawed
That's because it's not the extent of my logic.
Humans are mostly cooperative or conditionally cooperative - that's what enables society. But there is a small proportion of people who are essentially parasites, and it doesn't take a lot of them to flip the conditional cooperators from cooperating to becoming uncooperative.
"Rugged individualist" rhetoric, of which supporting the death penalty forms a plank, is just cover for parasitism. It's a personality type which is fundamentally antithetical to human society and things like liberty and democracy, which depend on the cooperative provision of public goods and being willing to take a larger view. These people are the rot beneath every institution eating away at everything we're trying to build. They're the people who think we should leave the UN, they're the people who think we should defund the public broadcaster, they're the people who think we should let the poor starve, they're the people who think we should hang petty criminals. In every nation, in every generation, they're there - gnawing. Rats in the walls, roaches under the fridge, poison in the food.
So kill them.
Or eventually they'll do enough damage that the conditional cooperators stop conditionally cooperating, and everything will break down for another twenty years and people will die anyway.