The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to expand the use of the federal death penalty, including through the deployment of firing squads.
The announcement on Friday was part of a policy document issued by the Department of Justice, setting out the legal argument for various methods of execution.
It touted steps for “restoring and strengthening” the death penalty as integral to the pursuit of justice.
“The Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” the Justice Department said in a news release.
I mean…
There’s completely painless ways to die.
That’s what the whole assisted suicide thing is in civilized countries.
The “problem” is, that’s completely painless, you just go to sleep. And the people who want this, want it to be a painful gruesome death.
It’s not justice or even removing an uncontrollable element, it’s vengeance. And vengeance has to be painful.
There’s nothing stopping an ethical death penalty except the ethics of the people implementing
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This comment implies that the method of killing is the fundamental ethical problem with the death penalty. The killing part is the fundamental problem for me.
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Yes…
Any discussion on an ethical way to do something, is first predicted on the thing happening.
There’s an ethical way to cut aomeone’s leg off, that doesn’t mean we should cut Bob’s leg off, it doesn’t even mean we should cut anyone’s leg off under any circumstances.
Just that if we were going to do something, there are ways to do that ethically.
People really don’t learn this shit anymore?
On the other hand, there’re good, ethical reasons to cut off Bob’s leg sometimes. If you hold the view that there’s never an ethical reason for the state to execute someone, then by that definition all those killings are just some varied degrees of unethical.
A prisoner is suffering and wants to die, their life is a constant pain and keeping them in prison until they die would be torture…
Youd make them suffer for years to only die in prison later?
I guess everyone has different ethical lines…
That’s not a “death penalty” though. It’s mercy killing.
First, I didn’t make the argument.
Second, I think most people could draw a line between allowing a suffering prisoner to choose death and forcing it on them.
Third, that assumes that there’s an ethical argument for life imprisonment.
Yeah. If done correctly, a bullet to the head is quick and painless, as in, you are dead before your body has recognized that you’ve been shot.
But the people who want this want suffering, so likely firing squads will be ordered to hit body parts that will not result in instant, painless death but rather a gruesome and agonizing death from shock and blood loss.