the death penalty is fundamentally adverse to civilization principles, if we accept that the state can arbitrarily decide to kill you against your will then we accept that society can violate our integrity for the sake of community benefit, it's very similar to psychiatry and anti-immigration laws, dehumanizing controversial individuals for the sake of the majority

the purpose of the death penalty should be swiftly removing societal rot. we shouldn't keep people in prison for life, just hang them when it becomes clear they are unreformable. there's some statistic where all the crime commited by the same few people, imagine if just removed them from existence instead of wasting resources on locking them up and then releasing them wreck havoc. the main benefit of death penalty is that you remove societal rot permanently, cheaply and swiftly. libtards are right about detterment, it doesnt do shit because most criminals are irrational ooga booga niggers.