that's not true at all. there are all kinds of rights people can have or obtain for which exists the legal architecture for being revoked in specific circumstances. like losing your license from driving drunk.
I completely oppose the death penalty for the reasons outlined in the thread,,but I want to emphasize that it isnt awful just because innocent people are executed. It is also unconscionable because it is unfairly applied even to the guilty.
If you are a different race than white or too poor to afford good representation, you are orders of magnitude more likely to get a death sentence than a white person with money. Simple as that, and backed by years of data.
Even if you think some people deserve to die for their crimes, we are simply not wise enough to administer it fairly. We never will be.
I actually wrote a paper about sentencing disparities in regards to the death penalty. One of the interesting things I found when researching it is that it also matters who the victims are. I don't remember the stats off the top of my head but basically if you kill a white woman you're more likely to get the death penalty than if you killed a black woman and if you're a black man accused of killing a white woman you're much much more likely to get the death penalty
Even if you think some people deserve to die for their crimes, we are simply not wise enough to administer it fairly. We never will be.This is all that needs to be said.
I apologize for my insinuations that those who had a problem with my analogy supported mass murderers getting released. I should have said that if the death penalty is off the table life without parole needs to exist to keep people too dangerous locked up forever. I suck ass at analogies and often mistake criticism of my analogy with my thoughts. That's on me and me alone and I own up to that.Life without parole should of course exist as an option, although I would want it to only be used in really extreme cases and have lots of oversight.
And I apologize for what I said about the mod in my dispute that was way way way too far and I will not repeat it here. If they want to post it they can but I will not.