Does method of execution, crime committed or overall cost matter to you?

  • nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 hours ago

    You cannot be punished if you are dead. The death penalty is just convenient catharsis and a release of burden for the living.

    Not the death penalty, but the lost prophets guy who got stabbed to death recently got off easy. Death was too good for him.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      14 hours ago

      Not the death penalty, but the lost prophets guy who got stabbed to death recently got off easy. Death was too good for him.

      Yeah I’m 1000% against the death penalty but I also reserve the right to feel that people like him deserve death or worse. I reserve the right to feel schadenfreude and to celebrate when monsters are destroyed, even if I think that rehabilitation would be a better outcome if possible in finite time.

    • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.worldOP
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      14 hours ago

      I recognize that sentiment. I’ve heard arguments that a person can/will eventually find a level of happiness/contentment while incarcerated. They will eventually enjoy a book or have a friend. Same can’t be said for their deceased victims.