When an innocent person is killed, even if you mistakenly thought they really really deserved it, that’s murder. What do we do with murderers? We kill them. But if one supports a system that murders, they become party to that murder. I’m not keen on being a part of a murder system, no matter how occasional.
Alternatively, to appeal to the selfish, if one is willing to allow a few innocents to die for a broken system to function, they they’d better be okay with being one of those innocents.
Either way, I don’t trust the state to decide who lives and dies.
When an innocent person is killed, even if you mistakenly thought they really really deserved it, that’s murder. What do we do with murderers? We kill them. But if one supports a system that murders, they become party to that murder. I’m not keen on being a part of a murder system, no matter how occasional.
Alternatively, to appeal to the selfish, if one is willing to allow a few innocents to die for a broken system to function, they they’d better be okay with being one of those innocents.
Either way, I don’t trust the state to decide who lives and dies.
Let’s get even more selfish. Executions cost the state more than life in prison. Financially it’s a stupid thing to do.
The problem with that argument is execution states are trying to cheap out over it. They’d love to get rid of the extra appeals capital cases get