Executing prisoners isn't about being "on the side of the victims" as it is often framed. What a person "deserves" as punishment is less pertinent than the kind of society we each deserve to be a part of. Just as torturing prisoners--even guilty ones who arguably "deserve it" for what they did--crosses the line into barbarity, so it is with putting prisoners to death. Fundamental human rights.
The death penalty may be used because people worry that in the future some liberal or leftist might somehow get into high public office and let all the murderers out of prison.
Writing right on...though when I saw the headline, I thought it was going to be about the next Trump term.
Thank you, Arnold.
Executing prisoners isn't about being "on the side of the victims" as it is often framed. What a person "deserves" as punishment is less pertinent than the kind of society we each deserve to be a part of. Just as torturing prisoners--even guilty ones who arguably "deserve it" for what they did--crosses the line into barbarity, so it is with putting prisoners to death. Fundamental human rights.
The death penalty may be used because people worry that in the future some liberal or leftist might somehow get into high public office and let all the murderers out of prison.