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The problem is that you cannot ascertain with certainty that someone is, in fact, a murderer. Countries with the death penalty will always execute innocent peop
by ddevault 4y ago
The problem is that you cannot ascertain with certainty that someone is, in fact, a murderer. Countries with the death penalty will always execute innocent people. Roughly 5% of convicted persons are estimated to be innocent, and an execution makes the possibility of appeal or exoneration moot. At least 190 people in the United States have been sentenced to death and were later found to be innocent.
- _-david-_ 4y agoI don't think anybody is denying that innocent people will be killed by the death penalty. Which is worse: 100 innocent people being killed by the death penalty or 100 innocent people getting killed by murderers? This is the calculation that many underdeveloped countries have to look at. Allowing a murderer to live in a country that doesn't have the means to support them will lead to additional suffering of the prisoner (due to less resources), additional suffering of those not in prison (due to additional taxes), and an additional risk to additional murders by the murderer (if they kill other prisoners, guards or escape). It is easy for people in the first world to say we don't have the need to have the death penalty, but to tell the poorest they are too stupid to know better is kind of arrogant.
- ddevault 4y agoOther comments addressed your (ridiculous) argument so that I don't have to, I encourage you to read them instead.
- _-david-_ 4y agoI encourage you to talk to some people in extremely undeveloped countries about the problems with detaining people for decades. I would especially recommend talking to people in the most remote areas of the underdeveloped countries. They literally are unable to keep people in prison. Over the past few decades, most areas have been solving these issues, but there are still a few areas where there is no alternative.