generalpotato

We can say that you can go fuck yourself if you’re not going to discuss something and throw snark around like a 10 yr old. :-)

Look at the other essays I’ve posted detailing my points. Read more, talk less. Makes you looking a raging idiot.

Thanks for the link. Here’s my counter:

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterrence

I will concede, until I look into this further that on face value maybe capital punishment isn’t as effective deterrent as I initially thought. That said, deterrence via capital punishment is one small piece of the problem. So let’s not lose sight of the main point here. Capital punishment literally has irreversible consequences, which means we need laws to be upheld. Just because it’s norm to have wrongful convictions, doesn’t mean we should accept that. That is the ultimate problem we need to go chase, not capital punishment. Focusing on capital punishment is deflection from systemic injustices. So when articles like this come out pointing fingers, my response becomes… “And?”

Right, well in reality they do. Everywhere. And it should be pointed out, your initial comment was that you don't see a problem with Saudi Arabia executing people in the present; do you think that Saudi Arabia has this perfect justice system already?

Maybe re-read my initial comment stating that I do not believe what Saudi is doing is correct either. A differing opinion =/= implicit agreement with a regime. Wtf?

You know people still die from all three of those fields all the goddamn time, right? Even in spaceflight, the one with by far the fewest operations in which something might happen, we're fewer than ten years out from the VSS Enterprise crash that killed Michael Alsbury

So that’s it? Society stops trying? What sort of asinine view is that? Fear of failure should not impede progress. This also applies to laws, regulations, legal frameworks etc.

In the real world, executing someone costs more than life imprisonment due to the costs of investigation and appeals. And it's still not enough to prevent errors.

If we aren’t subsidizing prisons, we can afford it. Although your claim seems far fetched as defacto statement. Costs seem to be variable depending on state, conditions, sentence type etc.

That's literally just revenge. Do you have any data showing that execution is actually good for the mental health of the families of crimes that, in your opinion, deserve the death penalty?

Says you. Go ask the parents of the kids that died in Uvalde massacre on what they want done with the murderer.

The law values human life by... ending it?

Accountability of our own laws, enforcement and the justice system… it’s thing you know.