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Originally Posted by nomadking
That assumes that they get sent to prison in the first place, as with this case. They are also released at some point.
If you are going to use an argument that the death penalty doesn't deter crime, then automatically you have to accept that as prison doesn't deter crime that should also be abolished.
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Why? Prison protects others by taking people out of free society. It servers a purpose other than deterrence, it can also be used to rehabilitate people to try and reduce reoffenders.
The argument against the death penalty is primarily that mistakes can be made and, in my view, that state shouldn't kill people if it doesn't absolutely have to. If it's not a deterrent either then it offers no advantages over prison but comes with the added risk of executing innocent people. Plenty of people have been cleared of their crimes on death row, sadly some were cleared after they're execution.