Paul Graham on Twitter: ""Because government-inflicted death cannot later be reconsidered on the basis of new evidence, it must be administered with extraordinary competence, but do not count on this: Capital punishment is a government program." https://t.co/7TVTFxe3JS"

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1. Craig Talbert‏ @craigtalbert Apr 24
  Replying to @paulg
  
  We don’t talk about this enough. Governments shouldn’t have the right to kill their own citizens.
  
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1. Thomas‏ @Concept2Brand Apr 24
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  I'd rather a guilty man go free than an innocent man spend life in a cage
  
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1. Tom Larkworthy‏ @tomlarkworthy Apr 24
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  You can't get back the time spent in prison either. Lack of irreversibility is not a sound argument. Just draw an ethical line that no-other has the right to decide on death. Tho, it causes problems for foreign policy.
  
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1. Daniel Tillett‏ @Nucleics_Inc Apr 24
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  There is one counterintuitive reason to support capital punishment - the quality of legal representation. Get sentenced to life imprisonments and nobody cares, get death and you will have a team of lawyers working pro bono on your appeal(s) for years.
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1. Michael‏ @mmay3r Apr 24
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  Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt seems insufficient with the death penalty. Needs to be reasonable to project doubt far into the future.
  
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1. Andrey Frolov‏ @andrew_frolov Apr 24
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  Killing people is bad. You don't really need any other reason than that.
  
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1. Nestor Rueda-Vallejo‏ @nestorueda Apr 24
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  I often fail to understand these arguments. Is this a criticism of death penalty or is it about government’s failures or both? Does the author believe that some other institution would do a better job? How’s that a moral discussion turns into a political one?
  
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1. Wally‏ @macroquantstrat Apr 24
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  A masterclass in a sentence on persuasion.
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1. Vladimir Vysotsky Stan Account‏ @Wolololnir Apr 24
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  If humans were reasonable people, capital punishment would be reserved for serial killers and mass shooters, yet this isn't applied consistently to these monsters. If Jeffrey Damer can escape capital punishment why even have it? And why even pursue it for relative lesser crimes?
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