Finality.
Both well thought and written, Marke. At the core I agree with you, but there’s part of me that still wants to reserve the possibility of capital punishment for extreme cases, which is what it should always be anyway. I mean at least the Osama bin Ladens, the Saddaam Husseins, etc. Situations where there are so many witnesses and such large scale atrocity, on the order of crimes against humanity. And I don’t honestly know where the line is. Genocide? 3,000 unsuspecting people? I’m not sure. But it seems really wrong for someone to direct violence, with all the finality of a capital sentence, against thousands of people, and escape that same finality themselves because we were afraid, in principle, of making a mistake.
