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Capital punishment is not an issue of freedom, it's an issue of justice - another core American value. I don’t think capital punishment is the only way to have
by D13Fd 6y ago
Capital punishment is not an issue of freedom, it's an issue of justice - another core American value.
I don’t think capital punishment is the only way to have justice, but I see it as a different concern than freedom.
- skissane 6y agoI think the freedom to live is the most fundamental freedom of all – every other freedom is dependent on the freedom to live, because to enjoy any other freedom you first have to be alive. If capital punishment is justice, why isn't corporal punishment equally so? If justice can be served by killing a person, why can it not also be served by flogging them or cutting off their hand? Do Iran and Saudi Arabia, in that regard, therefore have more justice than America?
- pjc50 6y agoCapital punishment is an issue of injustice, given how many people have been executed on questionable evidence and of the racial disparity in execution rates.