Asklemmy

I am not, on general principle, opposed to it. I do believe that there are some people who pose significant danger to others with no hope of rehabilitation, which basically leaves 2 options - locking them up forever, possibly in solitary if they're dangerous enough, or killing them, and in many cases I think the later may be more humane.

But, and I'm not going to go into all of the details because there's a lot, but I have basically no confidence in any of the systems we have in place to use that power in a fair way that can't be abused, and I'm skeptical that such a system could ever be implemented

So in actual practice I oppose it.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

No need to make it all official. Just withdraw all opportunity, community, and support for your troublesome minority of choice. Then, call it freedom; they’ll die on their own, eventually, and you can blame them for not being sufficiently resourceful.

i'm ok with executing CEOs who poison children because they cut costs on maintenance or safety checks etc.

if you have the resources of a state and you're not in a precarious position you should be able to Puyi most criminals.

Maybe it's my psych degree, but I refuse to believe that any human is completely irredeemable. While many mental illnesses cannot be 'cured' in a traditional sense, they can be treated and even incredibly dangerous people can heal. When you kill someone, you remove their chance to heal forever.

There's just no excuse for capital punishment. It's a vile practice done for the benefit of other people's perverted sense of justice.

If a person is going to continue being threat to the lives/wellbeing of others, they should be kept away from others.

If you lack the resources to keep them in an institution indefinitely, then killing them is the way you keep them away from others.

For example, a person who isnt in their right mind committing homicide because the voices in their head tell them to should be institutionalized by the government.

Whereas a billionaire pedophile should probably just be killed because they can bribe their way out of any institution/law so murder is unfortunately more likely to prevent future harm than attempting to institutionalize them

How do you capital punishment? Like this:

!PUNISHMENT!<

A good (not for-profit) criminal justice system is built upon the idea of reintegration. If you 100% cannot reintegrate a(n ex-)criminal, then sure, relieve society from that burden.

EXCEPT that you can never be 100% sure of either guilt nor lack of reintegration, so lifelong internment is the only solution.

To quote Gandalf: "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it."

Its not useful for murderers, since most murder isn't a risk vs reward calculation, but I could see it being used for white collar crime and political corruption severe enough to cause multiple social murders.

"We kill people who kill people, to show that killing people is wrong"

It's fucked. NO ONE, at all, ever, has the right to take the life from someone who does not want to die. Not the government, not murderers etc. It's hypocritical.

Should only ever be used for anti-humans ie people who are a threat to our entire species. In that case, it's a matter of survival. Just like cannibalism there are a very few situations where it's acceptable.

While in some types of crime I would absuluteley use it (mass murderers, child rapists etc.), the problem with it is that you can't take it back. There have been and will be cases of innocent peolpe eho get convicted. If they are imprisoned they can be released and given restitutions. If they are executed they are basically murder victims. Thus I think it shouldn't be used, because humans are not all-knowing.

I like guillotines. I wouldn't use them against the 99% though.

should be applied to everyone whose net worth is over 1 billion

I agree. It should be abolished.

Some people commit such horrific crimes that they are too dangerous to be among people & a waste of funding to deserve continued life.