If you are a normal human, the answer is also no, because people don’t deserve to die. A child who is unlucky enough to be born with bad genes or brain connections, does not deserve to be later executed when he grows up. A child raised in a bad environment also does not deserve to be later executed when he grows up. Finally, an adult who had bad luck does not deserve to be executed.
Do people deserve to go to prisons? Do people deserve to be punished at all? If not, and we should allow criminals to get off scott free, do people deserve to have their houses broken into, or to be threatened as they walk down the street?
We cannot simply abdicate responsibility by stating that people don’t deserve death. Nobody deserves anything, crime is real, we have to do something, why is the death penalty suddenly the thing that we should only do if someone deserves it?
Do people deserve to go to prisons? Do people deserve to be punished at all? If not, and we should allow criminals to get off scott free, do people deserve to have their houses broken into, or to be threatened as they walk down the street?
We cannot simply abdicate responsibility by stating that people don’t deserve death. Nobody deserves anything, crime is real, we have to do something, why is the death penalty suddenly the thing that we should only do if someone deserves it?