Death Penalty Debate

>If the death penalty had been applied, there's no "undo" button.There's no "undo" button for wasting away for 40 years in prison eitherTo me it looks like a glitch of the human cognition to think that losing almost/everyone you love, being dropped into a vastly different world than you knew, having your financial and social prospects thrown in the trash, living in shitty conditions for decades, is oh so much better and moral than killing them

death penalty is fine except if you find out later that you were wrong you can't undo it.

Death penalty does not serve as a deterrent compared to life imprisonment. It also sometimes applied to innocent people.

he didn’t say execute them prison time is a much more effective incentive for cases resulting in death

like what, the still up and going death penalty? doesn't get much more severe than that.

Does that work without death penalty being on the table?

The problem is that you cannot ascertain with certainty that someone is, in fact, a murderer. Countries with the death penalty will always execute innocent people. Roughly 5% of convicted persons are estimated to be innocent, and an execution makes the possibility of appeal or exoneration moot. At least 190 people in the United States have been sentenced to death and were later found to be innocent.

I'm thinking point is that with a death sentence, there is a possibility that something will exonerate the person before they die in prison. If the person is sentenced to immediate death, there are no do-overs. If we find out that an innocent person was executed, who get the blame? No one.

The lack of an "undo" button is not exclusive to the death penalty, many serious forms of punishment are irreversible.Why, in your view, is it much worse for the state to jail an innocent person for a long time (say, their entire adult life) instead of killing them?

Cause innocent people are sometimes wrongly convicted, and sentenced to death. Life behind bars without the possibility of parole achieves pretty much the same effect for public safety, while still giving the wrongly accused a chance to live. There are also rare cases in which new evidence overturns their conviction decades into their sentence. If they're put to death, they never get that chance.