Pro-Death Penalty: The Argument from Miscarriages of Justice?

Is the Argument from Miscarriages an argument for or against the death penalty? Or perhaps it gives helps and hurts both sides?

Thank you to SisyphusRedeemed for this rare opportunity to disagree with him. Don't know Sisyphus? Watch him now: http://www.youtube.com/sisyphusredeemed

Guess we should also be thanking Prof getting the ball rolling: http://www.youtube.com/profmth

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[Pushtrak]

05:17 was completely blindsided on that point.

[HonestDiscussioner]

@Pushtrak What do you mean?

[Pushtrak]

@HonestDiscussioner As in, so many more hours are currently being spent on death penalty cases. But, obviously, if that time isn't being spent on death penalty cases, it is more evenly distributed on cases. I didn't consider that point on watching Sisyphus' video last night.

[HonestDiscussioner]

@Pushtrak Oh, thank you!

[imorio]

@RepresentingTruth The whole point is that evidence in favor of the death penalty is lacking. That is why I was asking those questions. To show there is no basis for the death penalty.

[RepresentingTruth]

@imorio There are a lot of statements but your evidence is lacking.

[imorio]

@RepresentingTruth Will killing the people who did this undo their crimes? Will killing these people deter others? (as in, do you have any evidence it does) Will more death comfort those families who lost their loved ones? Do you ever know for sure if they did it, or is it just likely enough that they did it for you to take the gamble?

[RepresentingTruth]

In my state of Ct,. the Cheshire home invaders got the death penalty. This was the proper punishment since everyone has concluded that they did rape the young girl and murdered and burned them. So I challenge anyone to say that they should not get the death penalty.

BTW I believe that murder is the one death penalty cause since this takes away the greatest freedom of any person.

[HonestDiscussioner]

@insidetrip101 When you say "all people are exactly worth the same, with no differences" this simply doesn't reflect reality. The outlook loses any sense of nuance to the real situation, you detach yourself and therefore are more likely to cause harm. Ergo: consequence. Ergo: a factor any consequentalist MUST take into account.

[HonestDiscussioner]

@insidetrip101 Sure. If I am a grocer and I start looking at my produce as simply numbers, it's going to be easier to let a few crates of bananas get lost than if I see it as life sustaining food that people need in order to live. That doesn't mean I can't compare the banana's to anything, it's that when you bring things down to simply numbers, they aren't worth as much. It allows you to detach yourself which causes you to be less likely to do an optimal job.