Satisfaction vs Purpose Result - Death Sentence
Often when a terrorist is caught all kinds of things are blasted at him. He should be put in prison for the rest of his life! He should be skinned to death! He should be placed in a room with maggots and be allowed to decompose alive! Of course, as humans we want the satisfaction of justice. We want them to suffer before death because dying is not that big of a punishment for them, and we want them to be tortured first to allow them to know what their actions result to by implying it onto them.
We are not wrong to think that way, we are not turning evil in doing so, yet it isn't all that necessary. The main reason a person is convicted in the first place is to stop crime. We give timed sentences to minor criminal in hopes that they'd learn via jail as the punishment, and once they are out would turn into a different person. However for death sentences, we want them to be eliminated from the surface of the earth as we do not want to take the risk of allowing them to run around wild in the open shooting people. Since death sentence is, well, deadly, we'd assume that the crimes they've done are really over the line and unacceptable at all costs.
Since the purpose is to exterminate them, death is the best result. They are no longer with us. All the suffering is like special effects to an already well-plotted movie, and these 'effects' shouldn't cloud over the main purpose too much that it may even inhibit it.
Think about it, the longer time he has, the higher chance of escape. He has more time to devise a plan, and once he comes back, well, he'd be more evil than ever, and he'll probably come break into your house, kill your cat and thank you for letting him suffer to live and fly away from the window. Furthermore if he actually does learn from all that suffering, we become the bad guys as we bring death to a guilty yet changed man. Maybe he had sword to plead forgiveness and show great attitude towards goodness in life, yet we can't simply believe him and thus the punishment must still come.
Prolonging jail periods also use up jail space, eventually many criminals would have to be put together in one room, and who knows what they might come up with. The facilities may not be enough for future criminals in need of some chastise, and thus to effortlessly put a bullet into their we contribute more to the peace of society than all the just torture.
We are not wrong to think that way, we are not turning evil in doing so, yet it isn't all that necessary. The main reason a person is convicted in the first place is to stop crime. We give timed sentences to minor criminal in hopes that they'd learn via jail as the punishment, and once they are out would turn into a different person. However for death sentences, we want them to be eliminated from the surface of the earth as we do not want to take the risk of allowing them to run around wild in the open shooting people. Since death sentence is, well, deadly, we'd assume that the crimes they've done are really over the line and unacceptable at all costs.
Since the purpose is to exterminate them, death is the best result. They are no longer with us. All the suffering is like special effects to an already well-plotted movie, and these 'effects' shouldn't cloud over the main purpose too much that it may even inhibit it.
Think about it, the longer time he has, the higher chance of escape. He has more time to devise a plan, and once he comes back, well, he'd be more evil than ever, and he'll probably come break into your house, kill your cat and thank you for letting him suffer to live and fly away from the window. Furthermore if he actually does learn from all that suffering, we become the bad guys as we bring death to a guilty yet changed man. Maybe he had sword to plead forgiveness and show great attitude towards goodness in life, yet we can't simply believe him and thus the punishment must still come.
Prolonging jail periods also use up jail space, eventually many criminals would have to be put together in one room, and who knows what they might come up with. The facilities may not be enough for future criminals in need of some chastise, and thus to effortlessly put a bullet into their we contribute more to the peace of society than all the just torture.
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