• eusousuperior@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some crimes are so heinous and intrinsically evil that I believe we as society shouldn’t take the burden of keeping those people alive just for the sake of it. I believe that in those very limited cases, death penalty should be allowed.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is that you will 100% kill innocent people. And there is no way to reverse it later on…

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      1 year ago

      If it’s allowed there will be mistakes, innocent people will be killed.

      And it will be abused.

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          1 year ago

          Admitting that mistakes can happen is a strong argument against the death penalty. You can’t “get over” or “fix” death.

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      1 year ago

      This should only be used for cases where there is 100% of evidence that the person is guilty (eg: tool box killers, Breivik, mass murderers, etc)

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      1 year ago

      I agree death penality itself has its uses e.g. prosecution of war criminals, rebel leaders, druglords and I think corrupt officials in some cases. It should be applied to those who despite being behind bars would continue to influence outside causing more death or downfall of a nation if they remain alive. Though for this case just for carrying heroine I don’t think that should be a death sentence it is just stupid an outdated way of control. Though problem with death sentence sometimes it becomes a hammer and when it becomes a hammer everything becomes a nail. It should only be a last resort.