> From a purely practical perspective, the death penalty is bad because of inaccuracy in the legal system. I've always thought that from a purely practical per

> From a purely practical perspective, the death penalty is bad because of inaccuracy in the legal system. I've always thought that from a purely practical perspective the death penalty was bad because however vile a person is, and no matter what horrible thing they've done, a living person is more likely to be of some use to society than a corpse, which a convicted person will inevitably become at some point anyway. It may be that we'd be monsters ourselves for extracting whatever value we can out of the living convicts, and only later the dead, but the logic still makes it seem like a waste of opportunity/resources.