I am completely against the death penalty. Don't get me wrong I would rather have serial killers and such get killed, but the fact is innocient people have been executed before. And having just 1 innocient person murdered by his own government should be enough reason to completely abolish it.
There really is no reason to have it. It doesn't save money because it is often times very expensive to prove someone completely guilty and even with all the "fail safes" innocient people have still been executed. It doesn't help reduce overcrowding. Prisons are overcrowded because the government is busy arresting millions of drug addicts, not because its filled with millions of rapists and murders who would be the only candidates to be executed. It's not much of a deterent. Most murders are spur of the moment ordeals within families where the killer acts before he or she thinks of the concequences. It also sets precedence. If a government is legally allowed to kill their own people, then corrupt leaders can easily use that to their advantage in killing off political rivals over bogus convictions without rialing up their citizens as much. This happens in many third world countries and while it seems ridiculous to happen in "western countries" that still have the death penalty, a lot can change in 10, 20 years.
I do agree that prisons and jails are sometimes too nice. Ofc I don't want prisons to be like in Venazuela where a prisoner would be very lucky to survive the experience, but prisoners should not be allowed to have TVs, video games, or state of the art sporting facilities. They should only be allowed to exercise, eat, sleep, and communicate with their families.
