The death penalty is not about justice or making a punishment fitting for the crime. Its not about removing undesirables from society. On an ethical level the ONLY valid reason for the death penalty is to execute a criminal who could not possibly be safely confined in any other way. That’s it, and any use that doesn’t fit that case is little more justified than a state sponsored hanging.
The death penalty is not about justice or making a punishment fitting for the crime. Its not about removing undesirables from society. On an ethical level the ONLY valid reason for the death penalty is to execute a criminal who could not possibly be safely confined in any other way. That’s it, and any use that doesn’t fit that case is little more justified than a state sponsored hanging.