“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” - Adam Smith

I am an ex-con, and I can absolutely confirm that prison is a pointless punishment for violent crime. It can potentially work for minor things like driving offenses or vandalism, but proper restitution would work better.  Fraud, then you work off the debt until payed back. Same for theft. Violent crimes, however, require a public demonstration of intolerance, whether that be time in the pillory, or hanging. Adding violent criminals to a prison popularion only allows them to continue victimizing the non-violent prisoners inside, resulting in those non-violent types to become violent.

Prison is simply college for convicts.

Those that cheered on the assassination of Charlie Kirk have no grounds to be morally outraged by a literal terrorist being publicly executed by firing squad

Leftists only oppose the death penalty when it's being carried out against evil criminals. They fully support it if it's against innocent people they don't like.

They object not because executing evil people is wrong, but because they are evil people who fear being executed.

The people who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s brutal end are whining that a literal terrorist is going bye-bye.

I learnt as a child that child predators walked free or got 2 years max I think it is the main reason I have never seen the state as legitimate

"Your boos mean nothing. I've seen what makes you cheer."

If you want a prime example of what “opponents” of the death penalty would do if they were in charge of it, look at Canada’s MAID system.

they seem tp have no problem with MAID deaths in canada, justice must be seen to be done

The utility of prison only lies in separating predatory people from the rest of us. There needs to be a point where the separation becomes permanent.

What did they/them say after Charlie Kirk?

Make It TELEVISED!

These days we watch the deaths of innocents on Instagram; While the elites argue that preserving the dignity of the wicked, is the greatest accomplishment of western civilization.

I live in Canada, where the 4th leading cause of death is the government; so nobody, and I mean nobody in my country has the right to say shit about America publicly executing a convicted terrorist.

Pain is a huge deterrent.  Lashes sounds like a good idea.

The redeeming bit of Christianity is not:
'do something bad, sincerely repent, take Jesus into you heart, and then get let off to live a long happy life'
Instead it is:
'do something bad, sincerely repent, take Jesus into you heart, receive your lawful punishment willingly because you know it to be just, and then after you are dead you have a fair chance of not having a daemon poking your tender parts with a pitchfork for eternity'.

It is the redemption of your eternal soul... I would have thought an incoming Pope would have read up a bit on the main course texts before taking the job.

The death penalty is moral because it is an absolute necessity to maintain a safe, ordered civilization. Simple as.

Heinlein says the same in Starship Troopers.

Pain is the most immediate, potent, and primitive negative feedback people have. Why shouldn't the state use that mechanism for corrective action?

Sometimes you have to do something seemingly unpleasant to prevent something much worse.

Some people are beyond rehabilitation.

There is no morality on a battlefield or in the quest for survival.

And you're in a battle...

Justice must be both retributive and restorative.