AI ask for a global moratorium on executions

[warpedcomedy]

Y'know, I strongly support the death penalty, but the justice system is so flawed, that innocent executions can be prevented. We need serious reform.

[AnarchistInTheUK]

its beyond reform abolish it

[warpedcomedy]

How is it beyond reform?

[AnarchistInTheUK]

someone somewhere is always being executed for something they didn't do and at the end of the day capital punishment doesn't deter crime so why have it...may as well abolish it and look into rehabilitation and legal system reform

[warpedcomedy]

Innocent executions are preventable through reform, and they deserve it.

[AnarchistInTheUK]

but it doesn't stop crime so in a way more people die and it doesn't set an example

[warpedcomedy]

When you say "more people die", this is one circumstance where it is okay, since they killed innocents. And some say it does deter crime.

[AnarchistInTheUK]

In america it doesn't. And more people dieing isn't ok because you cant them claim that killing is wrong because the government is doing it

[warpedcomedy]

It is, because these "more people dying" are monsters. Prove that it doesnt. We have 300 million people, way more than Europe, so there will be more crimes.

[JamieHilland]

@warpedcomedy Prove that it does. The death penalty exists for 3 reasons - incapacitation, retribution and deterrence. Full life sentencing handles incapacitation in a more effective manner than Capital Punishment (being significantly more likely to be passed by a jury.) Given that the method of execution must be quick, painless and efficient (at least, theoretically) the suffering of the prisoner will be minimal - otherwise, it is unconstitutional - and defeats the point of retribution.

[JamieHilland]

Finally (I ran over the character limit), it is highly questionable whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent - certainly, the improvement in deterrent effect over Full-Life sentencing is negligible. Moreover, given that executions are held behind closed doors, with photographs of the execution supressed and the whole affair conducted in a bureaucratic fashion, the original idea of execution as a spectacle and, as such, of the deterrence rationale is redundant.

[wifimini]

Menda must feel left out.

[Mann1979HH]

Hi everybody! I like the idea of taking care for people with political and social problems around the world. Well, please write in a comment on my "If I ruled the world" vieo what you would change, if you ruled the world! ah yeah please mention each issue like human rights, jusrisdiction, educational and social system, taxation, military etc. everything ! thank you so much !

[AmnestyInternational]

A video about Mr Menda's experiences will be appearing very shortly.

Thanks

Amnesty International

[MurasakiShikibufan]

What about Menda Sakae? He spent, like, 30 years in a Japanese death camp because of a conviction based on a confession obtained while he was hung upside-down from the ceiling and beaten w/ a stick for several days. He should speak!

[DanTheMan333]

amnesty=a great group of people

[MurasakiShikibufan]

True that