tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post359543942108506152..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Death PenaltyAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-28673722930304431112020-02-12T20:53:18.927-05:002020-02-12T20:53:18.927-05:00Interesting how this subject brings out my inner D...Interesting how this subject brings out my inner Duterte. I am the least bloodthirsty man you could meet. Yet I find myself in favour of the death penalty. I guess the real problem is that you need to have some faith in the legal system. Which is becoming more difficult for me.stevohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12393254273631852865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-41762483133622806922020-02-12T13:16:12.744-05:002020-02-12T13:16:12.744-05:00The Death Penalty should always have a supremely h...The Death Penalty should always have a supremely high evidentiary bar to meet. But once met, the silliest aspect of this argument is when people start proposing that the Death Penalty is not a deterrent, quoting psuedo-evidence from the social sciences. Well, of course it is. If you execute the murderer, he's permanently deterred, ipso facto. Something to think about, especially when you start proposing to let convicted murderers out after a few years served, with time off for 'good' behavior.<br /><br />Of course it also pre-supposes that our Criminal Justice system is not prone to corruption, or at least has some mechanism to monitor and root out institutional corruption before it become rife. Our own DOJ is proof that we are not there yet, or even in the same county.Aggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089648434324058300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-17262999414398738252020-02-11T19:48:32.096-05:002020-02-11T19:48:32.096-05:00Stipulate that solitary confinement is cruel. (ne...Stipulate that solitary confinement is cruel. (necessary though, especially during intake) Most of the imprisoned are predators of one stripe or another, if I read the Wisconsin prison statistics correctly. Some are exceptionally violent.<br /><br />Do we owe the other inmates any protection? If we cannot isolate the exceptionally violent forever, nor release them to prey on the public, nor exile them in any sort of reliable fashion, nor turn them loose on other prisoners--what are we left with?<br /><br />I can think of a few Saudi or Chinese sorts of punishments that come short of capital punishment--all of them cruel or unusual. Or we could drug them into a stupor for years--which probably also causes permanent damage.<br /><br />Is worry about the death penalty something only rich societies do?jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-62615844516575253912020-02-11T19:09:05.782-05:002020-02-11T19:09:05.782-05:00I cannot understand the perspective of those who d...I cannot understand the perspective of those who decided to replace the death penalty with life imprisonments. “You know that bloodthirsty killer we caught, and that rapist? I think instead of killing them we should keep them around as long as we can.”Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com