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Capital Punishment

Our beloved leader is suggesting we put to death people who traffic drugs. What’s your stance on capital punishment? Has it changed over the course of your life?

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SB76 5 Mar 20
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I am against captal punishment. It has never worked. War on drugs put plenty of people in jail, but it did nothing to stop the spread of drugs. Instead of trying to treat drug addiction as a disease as Portugal did, Trump decides he want to kill drug dealers.

cava Level 7 Mar 20, 2018
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I might be for it in theory in very limited cases, but in practice, even if for the sake of argument capital punishment would be an effective deterrent in those cases or bring victims any "closure" without diminishing their own humanity, etc., the problems that remains are:

Justice is ineffective if it's not swift. The way capital cases normally play out, there's 10 to 30 years between the crime and the execution.

And justice is pyrrhic and beside the point if it costs society more than just warehousing someone for life. We spend tens of millions litigating / blocking / advocating for the sentence to be carried out, even when it IS finally issued. Even after the execution there may be lawsuits against the state for botched executions, which are an increasing problem, for allegations of cruel and unusual punishment, etc.

So even if I were rabidly in favor of the death penalty, I wouldn't favor it πŸ˜‰

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I'm against it completely in all cases. Killing a person is wrong period.

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