But isn't the death penalty an easy way out for certain criminals? How about putting them in solitary confinement forever? So they suffer from their madness?
if a person ls really evil he should get capital punishment. If he doesn't then they may change their mind and let him out. Killing him would give the victim some peace that that won't happen.
We are in a world life as in "life imprisonment" doesn't mean life.
The slave labour option makes alot of sense. Though maybe it would mean less jobs available!
But let's say this criminal who is totally evil made a few people suffer really badly? Ending his life would be an easy way out..no suffering no pain for the rest of his life. ANd let's say he doesn't fear death? PUtting him in a dungeon to be revisited each year to be beaten..wouldn't that be a viable punishment? Some say that Gd should do the killing and not us in the name of justice. What do you think of that thought?
If you were to be told you'd be put to death, would you see that as an easy way out, no suffering and no pain for the rest of your life?
I doubt it.
Practically speaking, it deals with the problem. That's the primary thing. As a secondary measure, torture provides additional revenge and a deterrent.
In the case of a classic rapist, a sure blatant textbook case, he beat some innocent woman, we know he did it.. I think cutting his knob off and letting him bleed to death, or cutting off another limb if it helps, is a form of capital punishment that would involve sufficient torture.
G-d is largely hidden in this era we are living in, and we have always been expected to wage wars ourselves. So similarly, I would say, on an individual level. An evil person or nation is a threat to you, we can fight them, kill them.. For a nation you have the collateral damage issue, it's usually about fighting/killing them until they back down. For a person, you don't have the collateral damage issue, it's far simpler.
And in this day and age. As mentioned. If a person is kept imprisoned, even if beaten every day. There is a risk that he will be let out. First concern should be the practical one, that he isn't let out, the only way to guarantee that is killing him. Or even he as he is beaten may have hope of getting out, and he may reoffend too, criminals often do.