Post by Mitchell HolmanPost by Michael EjercitoPost by Mitchell HolmanPost by Pierre DelectoIf you don't want to wind up on death row don't commit murder.
And in our perfect justice system
we always know who committed what murder
and never make a mistake. Right.
https://www.fd.org/news/us-reaches-200th-exoneration-death-row
It is no different in principle that bombing a defended location in
wartime despite the possibility innocents might be killed by bomb
fragments or the forces of the explosions- something that happened to
Germany and Japan in the first half of the 1940's, or present-day Gaza.
So you don't really care about
justice or facts or culpability.
Oh yes I do.
Post by Mitchell HolmanUntil YOU get accused of something,
that is.............
I will accept that the death penalty has the risk of directly
killing someone unintentionally.
the thing is, the government does not refrain fromm action merely
because it might directly kill someone unintentionally. Applying this
rationale universally, government employees would not drive automobiles
while on the job (because there is a non-zero risk of causing a fatal
auto collision) nor would law enforcement ever shoot their sidearms
under any circumstances (because they might miss and end up killing
someone minding their own business). And of course, I already provided
the example of bombing defended locations during wartime.
There are two compelling reasons to support the death penalty
depsite not being able to fully eliminate the risk of unintentionally
executing someone just minding their own business. One was mentioned by
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby.
https://jeffjacoby.com/1791/without-the-death-penalty-innocents-will-die
"But in fact, murderers are never locked up for life. When was the last
time a murderer died of old age in a Massachusetts prison? I asked the
Department of Correction, and it couldn't find one example. Willie
Horton's 1974 sentence for an exceedingly vicious murder was,
quote-unquote, "life with no possibility of parole." By 1986 he was free
to rape a Maryland woman and torture her fiance.
The median prison sentence served for murder in America is 6.5 years,
the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reports. Suppose, through
superhuman political will, we managed to triple the amount of time we
kept killers behind bars. After 19 years, convicted murderers would be
getting out, and some would kill again."- Jeff Jacoby
And then there is Ahlam Tamimi, who was sentenced to multiple life
sentences for the sbarro bombing.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171117182618/http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ten-lessons-the-shalit-deal-taught-us/
And yet, she was released because her friends took someone hostage.
The clear moral choice is to continue the death penalty. No murderer
had ever died of old age in a Massachusetts prison. They do get out to
commit more crimes, including murders, even if it means their friends
taking hostages and demanding their release to ensure just that.
But you would not care about that.
Unless you are taken hostage in a plot to release murderers like
Ahlam Tamimi...
Michael