Are you gonna back that statement up VR?
I used to unequivocally support it, thinking that if someone killed someone, it was only fair, to preserve the order of things that they should die too.
However, I now waver on the issue.
On the one hand, capital punishment seems only "fair" that the person should experience the same thing that his victims did. And, in theory, it's a lot cheaper to kill someone than it is to keep them incarcerated for the rest of his life.
However, on the other hand, with a Marxist perspective killing someone is the waste of a worker and they could be put to a much more productive use in a labour camp (unfortunately, the argument against this is that it takes jobs away from unions and legitimate workers). In real life too, people stay on death row for years and are treated reasonably well, as such it's still a waste of money to the system. And forcing someone to work doesn't actually compensate the family in any way shape or form for the loss they've endured.
Either way, I'm kinda split, but at the moment I am leaning more to the abolishion of it, not for the human element, but for the practicality of it.
S./
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