I find myself quite conflicted about capital punishment.
I see clearly that far too many innocent people have been sentenced to death, and that we MUST avoid such things.
I also see 'reality shows' about prisons where there are an increasing number of very dangerous prisoners sentenced to 'life without parole' for some very heinous crimes... and who take the view that "it can't get any worse", so they take up a 'hobby' of trying to kill or injure other inmates or staff. We spend 30-50,000 a year just 'guarding' and feeding people who are totally dedicated to being as big a problem as possible and who CANNOT be released.

Add to this the strange confusion about avoiding inflicting 'temporary' pain on someone who will in a few minutes have NO pain, and it just doesn't all make sense. IF you have a death penalty, why is technique so important?

I don't know what to suggest!!~.... but I **predict** that IF trends continue, in a few years down the road, much resistance to capital punishment will weaken as we run out of spaces and money to build new prisons and can't hire guards willing to risk THEIR lives....

we shall see, hmmm?