there's no moral superiority, lol.
I honestly wouldn't mind death penalty in a perfect system where we would have mind reading psychers or something. (i guess the reasons why you'd deserve death are open to debate too, but let's not go there)
The fact is the judicial system, be it in the US or in Europe or anywhere else is not perfect. There's mistakes being made. And that's fine, no system is perfect. But at least with lifelong emprisonment, you can
fix the mistake and free the guy. Not with death penaly.
I'd add that
death penalty cost actually more than lifelong jail (can't remember who said that, but you're wrong).
In 1981, most of the french public opinion was for the death penalty. And still, presidential candidate Miterrand said he would abolish it if he was elected. That was some kind of balls that he had. We definitely left barbary behind us when we did that.
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“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
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