Like many others, I don’t support it under a capitalist structure that will likely use it to kill those that push against Capital being ingrained into everyday society(That being said many of the murders of Black Panthers and Revolutionaries don’t need a death sentence, the government killed these innocent people without a court.) And I’m sorry but there are some instances where even capitalist nations SHOULD put a death sentence in place. That case would be Sexual Abuse. In some states in USA, they kill child abusers for this and I can’t find a way to say that’s bad. The US doesn’t care after a certain age tho, so I feel it’s important to add more protection to more people that are vulnerable to abuse. This is the current state of the law: In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court in Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, held that the death penalty for the rape of an adult was “grossly disproportionate” and an “excessive punishment,” and hence was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. The ONLY caveat I can think of is that Gary Webb was falsely accused of sexual abuse of a minor because he spilled US secrets. That’s a case where I can sorta understand people saying Capitalist nations shouldn’t have death penalty, but I don’t know, what do you think?
I’m not really sure, that’s why I asked you guys to hear different arguments for and against it. I agree with you, but at the same time it really rubs me the wrong way having the state wielding that kind of power. I’m still making my mind up, I need to do more looking into it.___
Yea definitely, I mean what’s stopping them from ‘Gary Webb’ing many more people and tainting the very real claims of abuse that exist out there? I can see both sides and can’t really pick fully one way, but I lean on the side of having one in place for heinous crimes like Rape
Like many others, I don’t support it under a capitalist structure that will likely use it to kill those that push against Capital being ingrained into everyday society(That being said many of the murders of Black Panthers and Revolutionaries don’t need a death sentence, the government killed these innocent people without a court.) And I’m sorry but there are some instances where even capitalist nations SHOULD put a death sentence in place. That case would be Sexual Abuse. In some states in USA, they kill child abusers for this and I can’t find a way to say that’s bad. The US doesn’t care after a certain age tho, so I feel it’s important to add more protection to more people that are vulnerable to abuse. This is the current state of the law: In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court in Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, held that the death penalty for the rape of an adult was “grossly disproportionate” and an “excessive punishment,” and hence was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. The ONLY caveat I can think of is that Gary Webb was falsely accused of sexual abuse of a minor because he spilled US secrets. That’s a case where I can sorta understand people saying Capitalist nations shouldn’t have death penalty, but I don’t know, what do you think?
I’m not really sure, that’s why I asked you guys to hear different arguments for and against it. I agree with you, but at the same time it really rubs me the wrong way having the state wielding that kind of power. I’m still making my mind up, I need to do more looking into it.
___Yea definitely, I mean what’s stopping them from ‘Gary Webb’ing many more people and tainting the very real claims of abuse that exist out there? I can see both sides and can’t really pick fully one way, but I lean on the side of having one in place for heinous crimes like Rape