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Originally Posted by Zee

I wasn't thinking of the lethal injection though, I was thinking about good old fashioned hanging; is there even a cost to that beyond paying the hangman?

There would be. Enormous amount goes into killing someone my friend. Besides which, if we did bring back Capital Punishment, you can bet your bottom dollar it would be the jab, not the rope. Bringing it back would be a challenge enough that would upset quiet a lot of people. I don't think we would choose an archaic method of execution.

Originally Posted by Zee

It's not going to revive the person they killed/prevent the crime they committed, it's not a comfort to the family of the victim(s) and showing remorse won't claim back the years they spent in jail. It's not even guaranteed that a prisoner is going to regret committing a crime.

A lot of that can be said for Capital Punishment as well though. And it may not turn back the time but if the prisoner does feel remorse, he will have claimed some of his humanity back which at the least can't be a bad thing.

Plus, while I am not religious, we are also forgetting a huge sector of this debate - that being the whole 'playing god' argument which would upset people too.