Why are liberals pro-choice but anti death penalty?!?!?
A lot of people, liberals or not, pro life or not, have looked at the death penalty system and asked if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime, what alternatives are available and though about the risks of executing innocent people. Sources below. 127 people on death rows released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA, available in less than 10% of all homicides, can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. The death penalty doesn’t prevent others from committing murder. No reliable study shows the death penalty deters others. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that don’t. We have a good alternative, life without parole, on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. Life without parole costs less than the death penalty. The death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison, mostly because of the upfront costs (before and during the initial trial) of legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of i
You’ll have to examine the anti-death penalty position a bit more. Many death penalty opponents are not against the death penalty in principle–that is, executing serious criminal offenders–but are instead opposed to what they see as a flawed system that punishes both the innocent and the underrepresented. I am a libertarian of the (primarily) liberal persuasion who supports abortion rights and the death penalty, but I believe that the latter is in dire need of revising and restructuring. This is necessary if we hope to truly minimize the number of unjust executions. It is important to understand that, despite what our emotions may tell us, the casualties of abortion and the casualties of the death penalty are not the same. The scientific field understands clearly that the fetus is not a conscious, feeling human being–this is why we do not provide fetuses with the rights afforded to humans outside of the womb. In contrast, the targets of the death penalty are acutely perceptive of th
