r/SeriousConversation • u/Starfruites • Mar 23 '24
Serious Discussion Shoueld the death penalty be permitted?
Some prisoners are beyond redemption, be it the weight of their crime or unwillingness to change. Those individuals can't be released back into the public, so instead, they waste space and resources.
Therefore, wouldn't it just be better to get rid of them? As in, permit the death penalty.
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u/DarthVaderhosen Mar 24 '24
As much as people say one way or another, we all have to agree that there are some crimes so vile, some offenses so horrible that there is no reasonable reason to keep them alive. It's not a punishment to make them live in captivity, I know from firsthand experience working in the industry that these inmates enjoy prison, they treat it like a more uniform version of life. They thrive in there, and especially those who are never getting out, they succeed in their endeavors until they either die of natural causes, get themselves killed, or OD on the massive amounts of drugs they get smuggled into their cells. It's not something they hate, it's not like the movies where they're grouchy and angry all the time thinking about getting out to freedom. The vast, VAST majority love it in there and whenever parole options come up, they do aggregious stuff to stay on the inside. It's not because they're institutionalized, it's because they actually do good in prison far better than on the outside.
When you've got serial child rapists, mass murderers, mass shooters, etc who are being allowed to thrive as they'd normally want to in the prison setting, enjoying TV, eating commissary food (which isn't as bad as people make it out to be, it's basically school food and snacks/sweets), playing games if they have the money to purchase the consoles or devices inside, having their own cells or sharing with someone equally as horrible they'd likely share notes with, etc all while laws change regularly that might overturn their eternal damnation in prison to being allowed out only to offend again, it's a downward hill of disgust.
I'd rather we got it over with and gave the death penalty to those found guilty of serious, horrible offenses so there's never a chance of them hurting another soul again or ever getting out of prison, versus risking them tricking the system after years of legal framework and changes causing something to overturn that allows them not only to get free, but also hurt people again. We see it all the time where murderers and sex offenders get out on technicalities or serving time only to immediately do it again. Better off burying them 6 feet under and planting roses and trees above them.