The death penalty is going to end. The right has forced America to drag its feet on this issue for decades and avoid the inevitable. They are incredibly stubborn. In the end you're just delaying. It is not an effective or practical practice in the modern world. That's just the facts.
If you want to have a quick death penalty, which would be useful as a deterrent, you have to not give a shit about executing innocent people. In our nation which is governed by rule of law, that is unacceptable. So we thoroughly examine and reexamine and reexamine each death penalty case over like two decades before the execution actually happens to weed out as many innocent people as possible, and we still execute innocent people occasionally. But a death penalty with a two decade delay like that in which we weed out as many innocents as possible is useless as a deterrent anyway, and the forcibly hurried investigations due to the obvious time sensitive nature imposed by the death penalty makes them incredibly expensive.
The penalty only continues to exist for one reason, because it just makes some people feel good. Because they are stubborn. It is the sign of a decadent and decaying society that they were able to block the inevitable for so long, that they were catered to rather than the rule of law, reason, and justice.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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