then the government has murdered a completely innocent person for no reason, and nothing can be done to ever make that right.
So… wouldn’t the same thing occur for innocent people who die in prison? Nothing can ever be done to make it right. It’s the same as sentencing them to death, only much slower and more expensive.
In a perfect legal system, I think most people would be okay with the death penalty for the most heinous crimes.
I don’t know. I see most people against the death penalty saying that they don’t support the death penalty because of some lofty “the government has no right to kill its citizens” principle. Not really based on anything, but it ‘sounds nice’ so I guess people go for it.
So given that, it’s much much cheaper to just keep people locked up, and it saves us a lot of money.
It doesn’t need to be. It’s at least possible to execute people for a cheaper price than imprisoning them. We just choose not to do it.