Are you saying the Parkland shooter and the Uvalde shooter would be put to death by firing squad? What would you have done with Timothy McVeigh, blow him up?
Only one point of order. “Eye for an eye” is not really a religious thing. Many people think of that expression as a biblical reference, but the Bible was itself referencing Hammurabi’s Code, which was itself not intrinsically religious. I would say, as other people have pointed out, that an exact punishment that fits the crime is not always practical, especially in cases where the crime is really, really horrible. Take the lynching case of James Byrd, who was chained and dragged to death by two men in a truck. Much as we might like to do the same to those men, who are you going to get to do it? The overwhelming number of people, rightly, would eschew the duty, no matter how outraged they were or how much the criminals in question deserved it. The clean, sanitary way we execute by lethal injection is as much about being humane to the executioner(s) as it is to the condemned.
dunno. But, it reminds me of the obscure Venice beach dude, Swami X who said,"You are what you eat. If that's true, then I'm a nymphomaniac"
As a whole, 2 wrongs don’t make a right, and the state, who is a representative of its citizens, should be held to a higher standard than the criminal. If said action is considered wrong by the state, the state shouldn’t be committing that same wrong action towards the individual. That being said, I know it sounds contradictory, but I don’t have a problem with the death penalty as a punishment for mass shooters. That isn’t exactly an eye for an eye, because there is only 1 death as a punishment for multiple ones.
All for it. Will an innocent get put to death every once in a while, sure. Everyone has a choice, live a good, crime free life and the chances that guy is you will be very slim.
I also don’t see how it matters. A life sentence or death penalty makes the chances of recidivism slight.
But they appeal for years. We pay to have them in prison, and sometimes in solitary, court costs etc., and it goes on for decades. We have also found people who were on death row were innocent. How many of those innocent people have we killed?
Not sure about other states, but Texas supposedly already has a form of this. If you murder someone and there are certain conditions met under the heinous crime laws you don't sit on death row for 10 years. You go to the front of the line. As Ron White put it, "Most states are trying to abolish the death penalty. My state is putting in an express lane."
