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Originally Posted by Damien
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.
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Rehabilitate people, yeah right.
There will be one-off offenders who don't need rehabilitating, then there will be others who are not exactly first time offenders by the time they get sent to prison, and then there are those where it is simply part of their mindset and those they associate with.