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Frankly, I don't even understand what's the purpose of capital punishment? It is not to punish someone -- they are already dead, so they can't feel the punishm
by joering2 11y ago
Frankly, I don't even understand what's the purpose of capital punishment?
It is not to punish someone -- they are already dead, so they can't feel the punishment
It is not to set an example -- its been proven over and over again - when people are ready or commit crime, the last thing they think of is that they will get caught or get punished.
That's why death penalty does not stop people from committing heinous crimes.
It is not to give relief to the family of a victim. Countless examples of (mostly Christians) that publicly said they forgive the murderer and are against death penalty for him/her are always being ignored by justice.
Its very scary to think a civilized country have something as horrible as death penalty, which imho means we gave up on someone. Sure I've seen animals in human skin but what stops us from putting them in jail for the rest of their lives (not money I can tell you that).
- baddox 11y agoOne obvious answer is that capital punishment guarantees that the criminal will not commit another crime, which isn't true of any other sentence.
- rwjwjuwjudf 11y agoLifetime solitary without any means of communication. This is probably worse than death.
- baddox 11y agoPeople escape from prison.
- rwjwjuwjudf 11y agoHaha, not from supermax they don't.
- Grishnakh 11y agoIf you used a time machine to bring some people from a 1600s English colony here in America to the present time, they would think our punishments are cruel and unusual. To them, prison itself was cruel and unusual punishment, so they didn't have them: they just executed people or did other harsh, but quick punishments, depending on the crime. To them, it was far more merciful to execute someone than to stick them in a prison cell for years and years. (They did have jails, though, but only for people awaiting trial.) So any time I see someone criticizing the death penalty as "uncivilized", I think it's a bit silly because there have been whole cultures that completely disagreed.
- joering2 11y agookay so taking your logic forward, I dont get it why we need houses, forks and cars? We used to be just fine living in caves, using stones to chase and crash each other skulls for food, and we been fine riding horses too!
- Grishnakh 11y agoSo you think prison really isn't all that awful then? And that everyone who tries to simply commit suicide instead of spending their life in prison must have "mental problems"?