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IMHO, executions don’t make sense given the amount of innocent people that we keep finding on death row.
It makes even less sense given that we need to have a long expensive, and highly imperfect, appellate process to double check that we’re not killing innocent people.
Also, we don’t really have any good data to support the claim that the death penalty deters people from committing terrible crimes. People that are going to do something -that- bad are usually going to do it.
I don't see it as intended as a deterrent so much as a statement of values. A way of saying some things are not games or forgivable.
But in order to make that statement of values, are you willing to execute innocent people and to divert money away from other public programs that uphold other important values?
Whats the point of saying that if its not meant as a deterrent? Who are we telling this to? Is it all to show upstanding citizens that "look, we're the good guys, we're killing the bad guys!"?
Is that really worth peoples lives, especially with the chance that those people aren't actually bad guys?
Life without parole would have the same effect though.
I don't want absolute human garbage to be given food and accomodations paid by taxes for the rest of their lives.
The death penalty uses significantly more tax money.
That's why you lock them up forever. Unless of course later evidence vindicates them, since the justice system is imperfect and innocent people do occasionally get wrongly convicted. Y'know what totally prevents later vindication if someone was wrongly convicted?
Whether or not some crimes deserve the death penalty, so long as it's possible for innocent people to be convicted, the death penalty is morally unjustifiable.
Like murdering an innocent person?
A statement of values held by society that sometimes you have to kill people in cold blood.
You wrote a contradiction in which it's not a deterrent but is one too.
Is that statement "killing is bad, and if you do it we'll kill you"?
Nah, the statement is "murder is fine sometimes".