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comment by bioemerl
bioemerl  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: There Is No Humane Way to Execute Criminals

Assuming there is an absolute requirement to be "humane" to criminals in the first place.

I personally am against the death penalty in general, but when a person murders their friends, makes sculptures out of them, shows no remorse for their actions, and are clearly disturbed to an extent that cannot be cured, I have no issue if their execution has a chance of going wrong.

If I saw a story where an execution went wrong, if it were the Boston bomber, the person from France, any mass murderer, I wouldn't really be shocked or saddened. I would be if it was intentional, and designed to torture, but that's not how the modern system works.

We should consider how society is arranged, we should only use the death penalty in the worst cases, and rarely even then, but we cannot be weak just because there is a chance things can go bad. If we did, we wouldn't do a whole lot of things that are good for everyone at the end of the day.