You are correct. My favorite argument against the death penalty is this: what if we are wrong about who committed the crime? If we were ever wrong even one time, that’s indefensible and horrific. Thing is, we know we’ve been wrong about many criminals.
Unfortunately there’s plenty of people who are perfectly fine with that. When given evidence of it happening before, they’ll go oh “it won’t happen here” or “it won’t happen again”. How do you convince people like them that simply don’t care for the value of life? Of course a number of these are also “pro-lifers”.
You are correct. My favorite argument against the death penalty is this: what if we are wrong about who committed the crime? If we were ever wrong even one time, that’s indefensible and horrific. Thing is, we know we’ve been wrong about many criminals.
Unfortunately there’s plenty of people who are perfectly fine with that. When given evidence of it happening before, they’ll go oh “it won’t happen here” or “it won’t happen again”. How do you convince people like them that simply don’t care for the value of life? Of course a number of these are also “pro-lifers”.
My favorite one is that we kill people who have killed, so we can show that killing people is bad.