Cases like these illustrate why the death penalty is such a terrible idea. The process itself is imperfect, and in some places filled with bad actors looking to close cases quickly while maximizing sentences.
I completely agree. Even the slightest chance of a wrongful conviction is reason enough to leave the death penalty in the past. More than that, state-sanctioned killing is motivated by the idea that vengeance somehow provides justice, or at least acts as some kind of sick deterrent. But it ends up implying a level of permissiveness for violence, fatal and otherwise, between everyone. The government shouldn’t get to make an exception for vengeance, sorry “justice,” when murder is held up as one of the worst crimes we recognize.
Cases like these illustrate why the death penalty is such a terrible idea. The process itself is imperfect, and in some places filled with bad actors looking to close cases quickly while maximizing sentences.
I completely agree. Even the slightest chance of a wrongful conviction is reason enough to leave the death penalty in the past. More than that, state-sanctioned killing is motivated by the idea that vengeance somehow provides justice, or at least acts as some kind of sick deterrent. But it ends up implying a level of permissiveness for violence, fatal and otherwise, between everyone. The government shouldn’t get to make an exception for vengeance, sorry “justice,” when murder is held up as one of the worst crimes we recognize.