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  • I’m somewhat neutral/leaning towards being supportive of the death penalty, and I understand your sentiment. And I’m not trying to be a contrarian or sound like a smug “know-it-all” or edgelord.

    But I genuinely want to ask, can you really say that the death penalty isn’t a necessity on some level?

    I do think and hope that the death penalty will be used less at least in a socialist society, but my opinion is that it should always remain an option.

    I am aware that it is a great tragedy that as many as 4 percent to 15-ish percent of those that are executed by the state are innocent of their charges. And I am aware that a lifetime in prison can arguably be “worse” and a more fitting punishment for the convicted.

    I’m of two minds: I think the death penalty should be reserved for the most heinous crimes where there is a mountain’s worth of evidence and nearly no shred of doubt, and if the person is a genuinely dangerous threat that refuses to respond to treatment, therapy, education by work and humility.

    I don’t understand how/why the death penalty should ever be completely removed as an option or last-resort.

    I am aware that China for example supposedly has long-term plans to stop the use of capital punishment, which I think is fairly commendable.

    I’m also aware that when capitalism is overthrown, crime and violent crime will drastically decrease.

    I’m talking like, in regards to people like unrepentant rapists/pedophiles, reich-wing agitators like Steven Crowder or Ben Shapiro, people like Peter Scully, Shanda Vander Ark. I don’t see the benefit in letting them live.