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goobster · 1850 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Death Penalty Can Ensure ‘Justice Is Being Done’
The death penalty is not justice, it's retribution. And that's has value to humanity. We can be all high and mighty about the sanctity of life, and claim there is no crime heinous enough to warrant the death penalty - and be completely out of touch with the entirety of human history - but humans will invent worse crimes, and continue to do them without remorse. At some point, you just need to put a motherfucker down. Their continued existence is a blight on humanity. Set your bar as high as you want; someone will leap over it. So while I find the way we do it reprehensible, I do think the death penalty needs to exist and be used.