Funny thing about Death penalty. Because there are good arguments to both sides.
You have a murderer, serial killer, any kind of scum, the lowest kind, and they deserve death, better to get them out of the way,
but at the same time, what if an innocent man is convicted and killed? Also, if the state executes a man that kills people, how does that make them better than him? eye for an eye just doesnt make anything better, and doesnt set any sort of example. Two wrongs dont make a right.
On taxpayer money- both keeping them alive AND killing them waste taxpayer money. on the one hand, by feeding, clothing, and keeping them in a living space. on the other, you spend money on whatever means of execution. On the Executor themselves, the officials present, and whatever materials are necessary. if I remember right, the only kind of Execution still used in the US is lethal injection, as it's the only one which has not yet been proven without a shadow of a doubt to be cruel and unusual punishment. The general consensus amongst experts is that it puts them to sleep and then kills them. Except since it's a cocktail of different chemicals, it isnt always the case... these days, the argument has been made that in many cases, they are NOT put to sleep, but often simply paralyzed by the paralytic agent, and therefore in silent agony as each organ shuts down, unable to scream or move or show their pain.
either way, you have to pay for those chemicals.
Again, it;s a dilemma. I can understand why one would want the death penalty, and I cant deny at some point or another, I have heard of some monster on the news which I truly wished would be wiped from the earth, and have wondered, "what would putting him behind bars even accomplish?" But at the same time, killing someone who kills others just doesnt seem like such a morally correct choice. Like I said before, it really makes you no better. It doesnt accomplish anything except murdering a man.
IMO the whole Criminal justice system needs to be updated. Youve got all the different kinds of offenders all lumped together in the same prison in most cases, and that often just makes the minor offenders worse than they were before.
Kind of how sending a kid to Juvy will most likely make him a worse kid, or damage him for life.
In all honesty, I dont support the death penalty. There's just no way of justifying it, or even calling any form of execution "humane". It's just eye for an eye. and that philosophy just doesnt work in modern day. It never really worked. Hate creates hate. Better to burden society with a prison full of criminals than to wrongly execute an innocent man who was a victim of police malpractice or simply the lack of today's super accurate and convenient technology.
How many people who have been imprisoned unjustly have been started to be discovered as innocent after something as simple as a DNA test on the prisoner and the victim have proved that they were simply not the correct person?