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Originally Posted by Not A Speck Of Cereal
Those are good points and I also am not necessarily against, but in the end, the death penalty really doesn't compare to your analogies in my view.
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True, and I didn't mean to imply they are really 100% analogous situations. Just that they all are undoubtedly intentional killings (with a possible exception of abortion, depending on your stance on what "life" is), but that doesn't make them automatically wrong.
That said, I think death penalty is not dissimilar to euthanasia. Even in the cases when the latter is the person in question's will initially, it still involves a perpetrator who makes an irrevocable decision that a given person would be "better off" killed (better for themselves in case of euthanasia, better for society in case of death penalty).
And then there is of course the deterrent factor, as you said. I don't know how successful it is compared to other forms of punishment. It'd be interesting to see some data concerning that.
