Death Penalty

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With this man's right to life being debated, how has the death penalty been used through the ages?
Is it just? Morally? Religiously?
Will it be a used in the far future?

I'm against the death penalty for petty crimes like China or Singapore practice but when you shoot up a church you've essentially forfeited your "right to life."

I really don't see the debate with the death penalty. Why should the people have to pay to house and feed someone who is a threat to society? I get that sometimes there are mistrials, but in cases like this, there's no contest.

I could see it have practical benefits in certain societies but as far as the US system goes in this day and age the Death penalty doesn't really accomplish anything of social benefit and is a wasteful of public money as well as a source of ethically dubious incidents. (e.g. wrongfully convicted individuals getting on death row, legal retards being executed)

I don't think you can really argue that this turbo-autist is innocent.

>A city infested with roided-up gangsters, crack houses and drug dealers and this guy goes and shoots up an octogenarian bible study group.

well...I mean

If he IS indeed a turbo autist...

He's not, but the existence of heinous criminals doesn't make the death penalty any more socially useful since life imprisonment serves the same purpose for about the same cost (sometimes cheaper).

I'm not making a straight moral argument against the death penalty in all places & situations. I'm saying for modern America (or the west) with all the expensive legal rigamarole that goes into it, it's more trouble than it's worth. The only supposed benefit is the solicitude for the bereaved, but by the time a sentence is carried out it's often more than a decade from that actual incident which makes for poor closure.

Churchgoers aren't packing heat.

Some people should be put to this desu.

In fact more crimes should carry the death penalty. No more of this life in prison or 900 years crap.

There literally no downside to going full blown draconian other than muh feels.