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Which is the Marxist Leninist take on the death penalty? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've said this before in that thread:

In practice, the number of people dying under the death penalty is nothing compared to the number of people killed in acts of crime, so this unhealthy obsession with “avoid killing innocent people under the state” and finding justification for the death penalty is unnecessary and missing the point.

I find this idealist notion of worrying about "wrongful convictions" to be very reactionary. Yes any wrongful convictions should be avoided, but no the death penalty shouldn't be abolished just because there's a nonzero chance of "wrongful convictions" occurring.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you have the resources to keep dangerous people locked up for their lifetime, if they really are that dangerous, then it's not that bad if it is a very small population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wrongful convictions are actually quite common and if discovered in large numbers or affecting certain ethnic groups disproportionately could lead to resentment towards the police force and social instability. It's just not worth the risk IMO.

Socialism is not poverty and even a socialist state that's heavily affected by climate change should have the resources to lock people up for life, especially if you already have prisons because the people certainly won't support enacting the death penalty for everyone who's convicted. If you can afford to build and maintain a subway you can certainly afford to build and maintain a prison.