Actually, I'd argue against it even for war criminals. The death penalty is monstrous and goes against basic human rights. Just wanted to point out that if these assholes really cared about finding a "humane" way for the victim, it exists.
Kissinger and Mussolini are different, as their crimes are both on a larger scale than what any normal criminal is capable of perpetrating due to the sheer power differential between some random bloke with a gun and somebody able to comfortably delegate their murders to millions of random blokes with guns; because they committed their crimes so openly it's absolutely clear they're guilty; and because they are so protected by the system that getting your hands on them is only possible after a political collapse that creates a lawless transitional period. The upper echelons of imperialist regimes are just entirely outside of the scale of what a criminal justice system should be designed for. Exceptional cases always make bad law. Discussions of the death penalty should be centered on somebody accused of shooting a cashier while robbing a gas station, not on somebody publicly setting entire nations on fire.
I doubt we’d argue much if Kissinger got murked on a vacation to Cambodia though
Oh, I'd definitely get out the Champaign; but that doesn't mean I agree with an actual legal system that includes murder as a punishment. Deaths during social upheavals / revolutions is different.
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Actually, I'd argue against it even for war criminals. The death penalty is monstrous and goes against basic human rights. Just wanted to point out that if these assholes really cared about finding a "humane" way for the victim, it exists.
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Kissinger and Mussolini are different, as their crimes are both on a larger scale than what any normal criminal is capable of perpetrating due to the sheer power differential between some random bloke with a gun and somebody able to comfortably delegate their murders to millions of random blokes with guns; because they committed their crimes so openly it's absolutely clear they're guilty; and because they are so protected by the system that getting your hands on them is only possible after a political collapse that creates a lawless transitional period. The upper echelons of imperialist regimes are just entirely outside of the scale of what a criminal justice system should be designed for. Exceptional cases always make bad law. Discussions of the death penalty should be centered on somebody accused of shooting a cashier while robbing a gas station, not on somebody publicly setting entire nations on fire.
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Oh, I'd definitely get out the Champaign; but that doesn't mean I agree with an actual legal system that includes murder as a punishment. Deaths during social upheavals / revolutions is different.