• YoFrodo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Any death penalty will create wrongful executions. It simply can never be perfect. How many innocent people is it acceptable to execute as long as we also execute guilty people?

    To me that is none.

    Any death penalty also means that there is an incredibly high level of trust in the government to be accurate and thorough and not corrupt. In the US thats the same government that allows the Epstein class to walk free right now. You trust them to wield death penalty?

    • GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      15 hours ago

      I don’t think they executed any innocent people at Nuremburg. This isn’t like the death penalty for a given crime like murder, where you can get the wrong guy. We know exactly who they are, there’s no ambiguity or any need for an investigation to find the guilty party.

      This would not be the Epstein government doing the executions, in this scenario they would be the ones being executed

      • YoFrodo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        14 hours ago

        and yet the death penalty that exists today and is used today HAS killed innocent people. You know how we can prevent that? stop executing people.