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The death penalty is immoral and unethical. The state should not have the power over the life of a person. However, the problem with removing the death penalty
by rswail 6y ago
The death penalty is immoral and unethical. The state should not have the power over the life of a person.
However, the problem with removing the death penalty in the US is that it will not deal with the underlying systemic racism and the misaligned incentives of police and prosecution to "get a conviction".
So yes, if the death penalty is removed, there is one less barbarism.
However, for those who are not on death row, who are subject to the injustices, will there be the same pressure to investigate and exonorate the innocent?
How do we ensure that the incentives for conviction do not supersede the incentives for solving the crime accurately?
- exporectomy 6y ago> The state should not have the power over the life of a person. Then it can't do war and can't defend its existence as a state unless it's somehow a dependent state of some other state that does have power over the life of a person. Like some small Pacific island that's protected by more militarily well equipped allies.
- atemerev 6y agoThis only applies for a draft army, not for contract army or volunteers.
- Y_Y 6y agoPlenty of states don't "do war" and aren't Pacific islands.
- exporectomy 6y agoAll of those will be like a Pacific island in that they're protected by a warlike ally. A truly undefended country would quickly be invaded.
- thomastjeffery 6y agoSo your argument is that if we stop threatening the innocent with death that we won't care enough about their situation to work to exonerate them? I call bullshit.