Lebanon on Tuesday became the first Middle East country to formally abolish the death penalty. Lebanon had not carried out an execution since 2004.
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there’s been dozens if not hundreds of executions in lebanon tho.
then again, the executioner was israel…
I’m warming up to the death penalty. Not for any specific crime necessarily, but some individuals are just beyond repair or rehabilitation.
Does the state have the right to kill?
While I do agree that some are beyond repair or rehabilitation, I disagree that the death penalty is the best way to deal with them. Even if proven to have done a crime worthy (such as with DNA), I firmly believe that it’s the easy way out for a lot of offenders. Life in prison without the chance of rehab is a much worse punishment in my eyes. Additionally, in many countries, the death penalty is more expensive than just keeping someone in prison for life. The modern & “humane” ways to execute people are very expensive.
I’m talking more about serial killers, serial rapists, repeat violent offenders etc. who do not respond to rehabilitation after ample opportunities. Death penalty cannot be more expensive than incarcerating people for decades. All that you need for capital punishment is a tough piece of rope and gravity. But if you want to use more humane methods, voluntary euthanasia costs in Switzerland are about $13k, which is far less than housing someone in a maximum security prison for even one year.
Same here. There needs to be absolute proof though.
replacing the sentencing with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the UN all in favor of slavery over execution. Am I the only one who thinks that’s worse?
While I’d agree it is slavery. There are definitely some people I think deserve to have their rights entirely restricted forever and contribute to society with the understanding they will never benefit from it themselves which sure you can call slavery but I think most would refer to it as a form of punishment and service.
If criminals, even just those who are proven guilty of the worst crimes without doubt, are forced to provide free labor, society directly benefits from their crimes and is incentivised not to prevent them.
I think that’s a perverted way to view it.
As of right now private companies benefit from imprisoning people so they lobby to keep certain laws and retain an abundance of prisoners from petty crimes. On top of more private industries benefitting from selling military grade tech to police forces.
People being forced to provide free labor as an alternative to the death penalty is the lesser problem in the face of that.
