Reply #32: your arguments against the dealth penalty are old, tired, and wrong

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to anyone that supports the death penalty. Here's what they'll say:
Executions cost more than life in prison
-because death penalty opponents raise the cost by streching out appeals, obstructing execution dates, not because of death penalty advocates

Innocent may be wrongly executed
-and spending your entire life in prison until dying of old age when you're innocent is better?

It is not a deterrent
-it is to the executed murderer

Life in prison guarantees no future crime
-murders in prison commit plenty of crime in prison. They're already in prison for life, so they've got nothing to lose committing crimes against other prisoners.

Execution does NOTHING for the victim. The victim is already dead and is not helped by more killing
-the victim isn't helped by ANY punishment given to the murderer. So what's your point?

Violates international human rights laws
-this is America. Who cares what foreigners think?

Most civilized societies do not use the death penalty
-so, if you have the death penalty, you are not civilized? Or if you are a (what, a barbarian country?) you have the death penalty? This isn't an argument for or against the death penalty in any way.

Capital punishment is not a solution to anything
-it solved the problem of the murderer possibly committing future crimes, didn't it?

Captial punishment is handed down unfairly. There are cases where serial killers were given life in prison. The mentally ill, the impoverished and non-whites were given the death penalty far more often.
-all punishment is biased. Capital punishment actually shows less bias than does prison sentencing, fine assessment, probation or parole. If capital punishment were broadened, bias in the system would go down.