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Fair question, and not an easy one.
My personal opinion on the death penalty has always been yes, I support it. An eye for an eye. When someone does the worst shit imaginable, like cold blooded murder or especially child rape, society owes the victims and their families real justice. Not just locking them away, but making the punishment fit the horror. That's how I've felt for years. It feels right on a moral level, at least to me.
But I've looked into the actual evidence, and unfortunately, it's more complicated than that.
Here's the data I gathered:
On deterrence: does it actually stop more crimes? The National Research Council did a big review in 2012 of decades of studies and basically said it's inconclusive. We can't prove the death penalty cuts homicide rates any better than life without parole. Most murders aren't some calculated plan. They're impulsive, emotional, heat of the moment. Killers aren't sitting there thinking "better not or I'll get executed in 15 years." Most scumbags are actually pretty dumb people. I know, shocker...
Real-world check: US states without the death penalty have had lower murder rates than the ones that keep it, and that gap's been there for decades. Countries that ditched it usually saw rates stay flat or even drop (no huge crime wave).
Cost-wise, it's backwards as hell. I know, I know... you'd think just killing them would be cheaper than feeding and housing them forever (I used to think that way). Well, nope. Death penalty cases run like $1.5-3 million or more each, while life without parole is usually under $1.3 million total. It's not the execution, it's the endless legal bullshit: crazy complicated trials with extra experts and special juries, then 15-20+ years of mandatory appeals. Most death sentences end up getting flipped to life anyway, but you've burned a ton of cash on lawyers, courts, and special death row stuff by then.
Other problems: At least 202 innocent people have been exonerated from death row in the US since 1973. Once the state kills someone, there's no fixing that mistake (the dead usually don't come back).
Incapacitation? Yeah, a dead guy can't reoffend... but neither can someone locked up for life without parole.
So yeah, the emotional and moral pull for retribution is real for me. But if we're talking pure effectiveness for public safety, lowering crime, or not wasting money, the death penalty doesn't deliver like we hope. Life without parole does the job without all the extra cost and risks.
My conclusion: I prefer something like what @nayibbukele is doing in El Salvador: lock them up and make them work as slaves to pay back what they owe society.
@lolitascak3 Poor little girl... I wish her a fast recovery. Hope she won't be traumatized. As for what the dad said, I completely agree with him. It's too easy to play the "sick" card. Especially if that kid wasn't supposed to be here.
@BitcoinetNous Entièrement d’accord avec tout ce que tu dis, mais je pense que c’est pas plus mal qu’ils ne se reproduisent pas si tu vois ce que je veux dire 😅