Discussion Poll: Opinions on death penalty

[SilentSadness]

Do you think the death penalty should be used as a punishment for serious crimes? Please write your opinion, since I think there may be a variety of responses here on Sanctioned Suicide.

Spoiler: My opinion

I think the death penalty should never be used, since I think it's barbaric to force someone to die if they don't want to. I think people should only have to die if they want to.

 

[DarkRange55]

I've discussed this before and this is something I haven't totally made my mind up about. In most circumstances no, I don't. There are very rare circumstances where I do. Probably. Not because as of revenge or punishment but there's just some people that are too dangerous to be left alive. A lot of people want to use capital punishment to use the state as a tool for revenge and that's not the right way to go about it. Some people are just too dangerous to be left alive. Like Osama Bin Laden. If the US had ever captured Osama Bin Laden, then they should have executed him. (Possibly after standing trial at the world court or something). He is too much of a threat. Or Ted Bundy, he's just going to murder to go on murder sprees, he cannot be trusted anywhere. He should probably be executed. But somebody who kills their wife or in a gang shooting, they probably don't deserve the death penalty because there are extenuating circumstances and there's no guarantee that this individual is gonna do this again.

I see no logically justifiable reason to kill another human being for any reason. Unless of course to save an innocent life from immediate and mortal harm. Considering how flawed our judicial system is and the possibility of a wrongful conviction.

But I'm not the resident political commentator: @noname223