[LooseCaller]

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Capital Punishment has a couple of drawbacks:

A) A lot more murderers will go free in society! Why? Well, if the court feels that it need to be 100% sure to kill the prisoners, every now and then a murdrere will not be found guilty, because of fear of a 1% mistake. But that 1% risk is ok to take if locking in someone for good...

B) A murderer will not fear killing again, for example the polices chasing him, since he is "already dead"

C) A few killersa uses the Capital Punishment as "suicide by others", letting the police/court kill them instead of comitting suicide

D) I myself would fear living in a small box for 50+ years more than being killed...

Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you understand my points.

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i agree with your opinion that capital punishment is a poor decision as a punishment for murder but i think you make a very common psychological error in D.

there have been studies in which perfectly healthy people have been given questions about whether they would rather continue to live if they were severely physically disabled (missing both arms, partial paralysis, quadrapilegic, etc) and the healthy people often said they would rather be dead than paralyzed from the neck down.

this same poll is then given to groups of people who actually suffer from these severe disabilities. they near universally would prefer life with their condition than death. the capacity for humans to adapt to difficult situations is an amazing and impressive thing and while you may think that you would rather die than spend 50 years in a prison cell, your opinion would most likely be different if you actually were presented with this choice.