Do you agree with the death penalty and should executions be public?

It might be on some levels. On the hand , some people might as well be put down. For example, a serial killer. It’s self defense. It’s expensive to keep them locked up and dangerous for other inmates. I don’t think this is barbaric.If someone accosted you and you knew they had accosted several other people and were about to kill you, you’d kill them to stop them. It’s instinctive. There’s nothing wrong with that. I think killing people in public is gruesome. I think we keep some kind of humanity. @OggggO

@Spoiledbrat Execution actually costs more than life imprisonment. Further, "self-defense" stops being self-defense once someone is subdued and incapable of further attack.

Of course it does in the “literal” sense. I’m just saying keeping a serial killer in prison for life? What for ? They now don’t have a life. And I’d have to do some reach on cost to execute. I’ve never known i t to be more expensive. @OggggO

I was trying to make the point that it’s not barbaric. Keeping criminals locked up like animals is barbaric. Further , I would not be able to subdue someone like Charles Manson or Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy got away with it for so long because he blended in. @OggggO

@Spoiledbrat Yes, it is more expensive to execute someone than keep them in prison for life - due to the costs of the mandatory appeals process.

And as to why we have one - it’s because we’re not China, believe in something called due process, and want to cross every t and dot every i before doing something nobody can take back.