Prosecutors in UK fighting to bring as much as life sentence to acid attackers

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vivster said:

sc94597 said:

Yeah, I am very much opposed to the death penalty because I think it can be abused to harm disadvantaged groups and there is always the chance that somebody is innocent, but it would be hard to argue against killing somebody who does something like this with solid (video or hundreds of witnesses) evidence of their guilt, ideally in a horrific way such as pouring acid on them. 

Nah, why the effort? Prove they're guilty, slam the hammer, bring them into the back room and bullet in the head. Every second or cent we spend on sociopaths is wasted.

Well if we are intending to use the death penalty as a deterrent we might as well go all out and make it as excruciating as possible. A bullet to the head is the easy way out. In the United States death penalty cases tend to be more expensive than life-sentences because of the necessary appeals process. When we put somebody to death we need to put in the extra effort to make sure they are guilty of their crime, because we can't bring people back to life if they are found to be innocent, while we can send somebody with a life sentence free if the same were to happen.