I agree with the death penalty in principle. In practice, I would only agree with it under the dictatorship of the proletariat because a bourgeois state should not have that amount of power.
I'm all for rehabilitative justice, but if it can be proven beyond any reasonable doubt that you:
- intentionally murdered an innocent person
- raped someone
- molested a child
- are a nazi
- committed war crimes
then you have forfeited your right to be a part of society and should be removed from it. Imo there is no amount of re-education or rehabilitation that can fix a person who has done any of the aforementioned things.
Thoughts?
Absolutely. Most people are redeemable. Fascists, rapists and child molesters are NOT. The fact that so many people think otherwise is concerning.