Did I use redeem wrong? I thought it comes from redemption. Some people cannot be rehabilitated and will always be a danger to others.
We know the best court in the land will fail about 4% of the time.
Lower than I expected but still too high for something irreversible. When the failure rate is 0% then, in my opinion, capital punishment can be justly applied. Since that would never be achieved, no state should have the power to execute. I don't oppose it of religious or moral reasons, I don't think it is wrong in ideal terms, but I don't think flawed and biased people can be trusted with it.
My only issue with it is that it is irreversible and the system fails too often to be trusted with it. I wouldn’t object to it if no innocent victims were executed, I believe too many people are irredeemable. But the world is imperfect, better to stay safe and only apply reversible punishments.
I know a little about this than I should as I know people who have been in the system and got all range of sentences. The only people I know who were executed were because they leaked classified military information to Iran-affiliates. Regardless of their motives and justifications, no state would tolerate that. But the government would never say why publicly and it will be reported as another possibly unjustified execution, only who know know. The people who were just outspoken got lengthy prison sentences, not fair, but it is what it is.
My politics don't always go well with the government so I keep in mind what my parents told me at 6: 1. don't talk politics 2. don't talk religion 3. all phones are monitored. Though my main objection is in its international affairs and apathy towards regional causes. Domestic policy reflects the current culture and it can't be helped.
What I know is that people who are politically active in a way deemed disruptive by the monrachy are sentenced to 10 or 20 years prison rather than capital punishment.
As long as the majority of Muslims want Shariah Law it makes no difference whether it is an absolute monarchy or a democracy. There's a lot of crimes that require capital punishment in Islam.
Depending on where you live, even in the West, capital punishment is popular.
no, it is very popular