There are 176 prisoners on Ghana's death row, but the last execution was 30 years ago.
  • aeternum@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    Death penalty has no place today. It’s barbaric, and, at least in america, it’s like 5% of those executed are innocent. I don’t know the exact number, but that’s not good enough. Imagine waking up one day to be executed and you did nothing wrong.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can always release somebody from prison, you can’t pick them up from the afterlife.

  • neonfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    314·
    1 year ago

    Good, death is an escape from punishment. If you want someone to suffer for their crimes, keep them alive and miserable in jail. The only hell is the one we live in now.

      • Ignacio@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Rehabilitation and restitution

        That’s what the Spanish Constitution says in its article 25, and I agree.

      • neonfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        In general I agree, but the existence of the death penalty at all is not rehab or restitution, but to cause suffering. I don’t believe in eye for an eye, but if the goal is punishment, death is only an escape from punishment, whereas keeping them alive and in jail for as long as possible is to me way more of a punishment.