The Death Penalty: Justified or Immoral?

[Senkaku]

Under no circumstance is the death penalty justified. Like abortion, like euthanasia, its a waste of the human person. It's never just.

It is just when you have a person who is obviously nonredeemable. I see no reason to keep sadistic criminal psychopaths alive and do believe that come criminals are too dangerous to keep alive.

Not killing someone is not dependent a person's "worth" or "redeemability" in any other area of life, I don't see why it should be a function of the justice system to determine that or to kill someone who it determined was lacking in either area.

If the sadistic criminal psychopath can be neutralized without killing them (for example, locked in a supermax jail), then they shouldn't be killed. If they're rampaging through a town full of civilians, and there's no way for the state's officers to safely stop them without risking their own lives, that's a different situation.

[Ifreann]

Anyone who doesn't believe that false confessions are made all the time is someone who would definitely be susceptible into being coerced into making one.

It's very strange that some people seem to believe that there are some criminals in society who are so incredibly evil that even lifetime incarceration is insufficient, they must be executed, but then turn around and have absolute faith in the police to obey they law and pursue true justice honestly and fairly.