Yes, the death penalty is cruel, brutalistic, immoral, retrogressive, unevenly distributed among races/ethnicities, and plays to our very worst instincts as a species. But: it also doesn't fucking work. So that's neat. www.scientificamerican.com/article/evid....

Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty

Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis

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Neither cost effective nor a deterrent. It’s just state sponsored revenge. Thank an elected R for supporting gratuitous murder.

No it doesn’t which says a lot about our society.