No matter how horrible the crime Is, time and again, the conclusion is death penalty is still a bad thing.
In the list of things going wrong about killing innocents, you have human errors, bias towards minorities (on purpose or not), framing individuals, abuse of power, and plain political weaponization.
On the policy side, you think you would restrain it to the most horrendous crimes. Look at the current climate in the US administration: criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “the same as” wishing all Jews dead, and they started comparing Trump to God.
Normalize the death penalty, and see a bench of crimes labelled horrible enough to warrant a death sentence. That may still come, but the fact that today, death penalty is not normalized prevents them from going there faster.
If you want to remove individuals from society, you still have lifelong prison. At least there, society gets a change to mitigate its mistakes.
No matter how horrible the crime Is, time and again, the conclusion is death penalty is still a bad thing.
In the list of things going wrong about killing innocents, you have human errors, bias towards minorities (on purpose or not), framing individuals, abuse of power, and plain political weaponization.
On the policy side, you think you would restrain it to the most horrendous crimes. Look at the current climate in the US administration: criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “the same as” wishing all Jews dead, and they started comparing Trump to God.
Normalize the death penalty, and see a bench of crimes labelled horrible enough to warrant a death sentence. That may still come, but the fact that today, death penalty is not normalized prevents them from going there faster.
If you want to remove individuals from society, you still have lifelong prison. At least there, society gets a change to mitigate its mistakes.