I read the first link and it says that only people inbetween the ages of 16 and 18 are benefitted by that and it's not the government that pays them ,but the company they work for. If you are unemployed when you arrested you will recieve no benefit.
if one kills my frnd ill kill him his frnf will kill me and this will go on unless the frst man is executed by court order
ehm... no? There are actually people who won't kill anybody if their friend gets killed. btw this argument is bull because you could also send him to prison for his whole life.
I would extent the death penalty to include pedophiles co-morbid with high psychopathy levels. They cause irreparable harm to their victims and typically cannot be rehabilitated.
THERE IS ALWAYS THE POSSIBILITY THEY ARE INNOCENT. Over the last hundred years, 400 people were executed in the US who were later found to be innocent. And these are only the ones FOUND to be innocent. If they had been jailed, they could have been cleared and freed. But death, it's permanent.
What about cases where the criminal admits to the crimes? Some psychopaths I have met (I work in law enforcement) are actually quite proud of what they have done and are more than happy to describe in great detail exactly what they did and why. There is ZERO chance these guys are innocent, in fact they would probably be insulted if you denied them credit for their work. There's only a small handful of these dudes and not all are killers, but this small group should be put to death if for no other reason than to ensure their DNA is extinguished.
There is always a very small chance that the person is not guilty. For example people could confess a crime to protect somebody else.
Also don't forget: In dubio pro reo. If there is a reasonable doubt that the person could be not guilty then he won't/shouldn't be jailed. So you can't say that if we are 100% sure we can use the death penalty and otherwise we send them to prison.
The death penalty goes a against the 8th amendment no cruel or unusual punishment but if the crime is severe to a certain degree i believe it can be put in place.
What about cases where the criminal admits to the crimes? Some psychopaths I have met (I work in law enforcement) are actually quite proud of what they have done and are more than happy to describe in great detail exactly what they did and why. There is ZERO chance these guys are innocent, in fact they would probably be insulted if you denied them credit for their work. There's only a small handful of these dudes and not all are killers, but this small group should be put to death if for no other reason than to ensure their DNA is extinguished.
If you work with them, surely you know their history? If they have a mental illness? If so, is it right to kill them? Not everyone has a mental illness deemed severe enough to ship them off to the mental hospital. Sometimes criminals don't mean to commit a crime. The death penalty doesn't give anybody the change to help them.
My other thought throughout this thread (or another like it) has always been. If a serial killer kills 20+, it's not justice killing him or her, that's only one death. A life sentence per person is more torturous.
