The Death Penalty

[devonin]

Originally Posted by rzr

Isn't letting them pick their death like suicide? Which is like giving them an ultimatum which they do not deserve.

Um...whether they pick or not you are going to kill them. How does letting them choose the manner of their death somehow make it suicide? Your explicit plan is to murder them. Suicide doesn't enter into it at all.

What if the crime they committee was completely awful and terrible.

I simply refuse to believe that the person you describe in your example is possibly someone who you would classify as being mentally stable and in their right mind. They are clearly suffering from some sort of severe mental problems that ought to be addressed before you present the choice as being life in jail vs execution. False Dilemma ftl.

And as for the deleted posts: Zythus, RZR's example included someone videotaping themselves committing crimes, and presumably given the detail present in the example, confessing and describing what they did. Saying "Well there's still no such thing as 100% proof" becomes a little faceitous at this point. Confession obviates the need for proof in pretty much all legal proceedings. And RZR: I should never see anybody in CT saying "If you don't ____, Don't post"