It's time we act civilized and stop executing people

[eynon81]

[Medius]

[Leviathan]

I'm not a bank robber but I've watched enough movies to know those are often the same

[eynon81]

[exploited]

[exploited]

[Medius]

[Divinity11]

[exploited]

There would be almost no threat to guards if they weren't tasked with guarding prisons that are overpopulated and contain mostly people who shouldn't be there.

Again it is absolutely and unavoidably immoral to kill an unarmed person who is no longer a threat to society - the attacks faced by guards are already minimal and would be non-existent were prisons run properly.

Your distinction between murderers and soldiers is one of convenience not logic. It relies totally on legality. Saddam Hussein's torturers and assassins were acting legally. People running concentration camps and torturing prisoners are acting legally. The only way to say they aren't is to point to international law... Which actually condemns your position and supports mine.

[nordictruce]

I take the opposite approach. I don't think we execute enough people and it should be done in public, in more gruesome manners.

If you are death row now it's almost like you are a celebrity. People give a damn about you, lawyers want to work for free to take up your cause no matter how shitty a human being you are. We need to go back to hanging, drawing and quartering people.

I'm probably the only person on this thread that has a family member that's been on death row. My grandfather, my mother's father, robbed a liquor store and killed 2 people while in the process of robbing the store about 2 years before I was born. He was sentenced to death but it got commuted to life, then that got reduced to 25 years.


So he gets out of prison when I'm like, 23 years old. 6 months later he beats a man unconscious over a dispute in a dice game. Right back in prison. They should have killed him when they had the chance.