This thread is clearly going in circles.
One side is saying that a wrong death penalty conviction is impractical because they can become irreversible.
The other side is saying that the justice system is imperfect and that a wrong death penalty conviction can be just as bad as a wrong a wrong life sentence conviction.
I'm still going to stand by what I said way earlier. Some of you aren't actually against the death penalty. You're just against the justice system.
One poster even equated revenge
with justice and called any apparent difference just "semantics." Jesus Christ.
So, are you really, truly comfortable with the idea of state-sanctioned killings of human beings who have been rendered and confined to a status of no longer being a threat to society?
Nobody here has really talked about treason - just about the only crime spelled in detail in the constitution:
Article III, Section 3:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
Not only is the crime explained, but the burden of proof as well. In the case of treason, I have no opinion yet on the death penalty. A serial murder kept behind bars is no longer a threat to society. But a treasoner in kept in any condition is still a threat to national security so long as that person is kept alive. That treasoner can whisper a few lines to the C/O, the C/O whispers a few lines to some guy on the outside, that guy mails a letter to a foreign government, etc. So, what's it gonna be with treasoners who have met the correct burden of proof? I support wiring their jaws shut and keeping them in a drugged up stuper, unable to communicate - but that violates 8th amendment.
We all here support the literal definition of the 2nd amendment. Don't go taking one part of the constitution literally, and another not so literally. Treason is properly spelled out here. Notice that it's the Congress, not a judge that sentences Jane Fonda. I mean, treasoners.