Nature also kills off people through natural causes.

 

So are we arguing the effectiveness of death penalty or our inherent ability of half-assing everything in this country? At least to the point where holes present themselves in defending what could be a straight-forward and efficient system. Sorta reminds me of the Iraqi war. Not to drag that into the mix but you have to wonder if our effectiveness was rendered useless due to our militaries neutered state and the miles of tape.

Then I'd have to agree with you then based on appeals money and my insignificant prison space issue.

But I think the argument for the death penalty would be pretty strong if we actually did it once in awhile. Like to the point death row wasn't needed.

 

So a lost pregnancy could be assumed as natural selection. Nature working out the bugs. The death penalty is nothing more than giving mother nature a helping hand. I'm sure she slips and leaves a few bad apples here and there. Good thing we can rid the bad apples before the good ones become tainted too.

 

That was the point of it all along...

Why does it seem that folks of yesteryear had a much more clear picture of why things are the way they are?

 

Yeah, then it doesn't even matter if we got the wrong guy too. As long as we kill SOMEONE to appease the mourning victim's families, that's what really counts.

 

You mean ancient times? Hamurabi's code was pretty effective. If we started cutting off hands for robbery, we sure would have a lot less crooks wouldn't we!