Looking for a shred of human decency from the boy-child 47th president of the USA is as futile as searching for the bucket of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Capital punishment is a moral travesty,
Aries54,
In case of conviction on 100% proof the travesty of murder is actually many times worse !

Only in rare circumstances should capital punishment occur - deliberate cold blooded murder and terrorism where innocent lives are lost. An eye for an eye! But I don't support the death penalty under any other circumstances, not even for drug trafficking where lives are lost as an indirect consequence of the illegal activity.

The author focuses on three very good reasons why the death penalty in the USA is barbaric – the fact it does not act as a deterrence; the relatively high rates of wrongful or questionable convictions, meaning some innocents are executed; and the discrepancies in people who are likely to be sentenced to death depending on the race of the murderer and their victim.

I’d add a fourth – the death penalty is immoral in and of itself, even if the law was totally colour blind and death sentences imposed in cases where there was no possibility of wrongful conviction. We do not kill prisoners for the same reason we do not torture them, even if torture would act as a deterrence or yield useful information.

Of the 40 countries classified as developed, only four use the death penalty - the USA, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. And the USA is one of the world’s most prolific state-sanctioned killers, in the company of China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Iraq. Not a record to be proud of.

Terrorism and blowing, blowing people to bits, cutting off their heads are all “moral failures”.

But capital punishment is not really a punishment. All over in a flash. Solitary confinement until death is much better.

not even for drug trafficking where lives are lost as an indirect consequence of the illegal activity.
Bernie Masters,
My view on that is that any overdose should be put at the end of the Ambulance queue !