Do You Support the Death Penalty? | Keep it 100 | Cut

I don't have an ethical problem with heinous criminals being punished with death (eg: Dylan Roof). However, our system is too flawed to ensure innocent people are not being executed, and that alone should make it a non starter.

“There’s a reason I’m not put in charge of those decisions,” was accidentally the wisest answer that person could have provided.

The thing that bothers me is that there are way too many innocent people who were executed. In those cases, justice wasn’t just especially since their rights infringed upon. The ones where evidence was ignored just to say the case was closed. Those cases really bother me.

There is a big difference between wishing someone dead and being in favour of the death penalty.

It’s so surprising to me how much of them thought of it as an economical problem

One of the biggest misconceptions about the Death Penalty is that it is cheaper than keeping people in prison for life. There was a study coming out of Washington state (where I think cut is based) a while back that found the legal costs necessary to prosecute someone with the death penalty outweigh the costs of keeping someone in prison for the rest of their lives.

Makes me happy to see others brought up the unfairness of the Justice system as well🙌

as a european, this is odd

Here in Canada, the death penalty was abolished in 1976, and we never saw an explosion in crime as a result. In fact, we're one of the safest countries on Earth (12th in the world, according to the Global Peace Index, versus 129th for the United States). Watching this video, it made me realize how emotionally-driven the debate is in the United States, rather than policy-driven. It's not really about what's best for reducing crime, it's about how much you hate criminals and how much you want to take revenge on them and make them suffer. Because in reality, there's strong evidence showing that the death penalty isn't even all that effective at reducing crime compared to other punishments like life-in-prison. It is possible to build a safe society without the death penalty, through prevention and rehabilitation. It would also be more humane.

I think self defense isn’t murder. It’s self defense.

Here in the states the death penalty has been abused to target marginalized communities rather than use it for any actual justice. The only way it would be useful is if there was a complete overhaul of the entire death row system.

I would rather a thousand people who did deserve the death penalty get life in prison, than one innocent person get executed

Morals aside, as long as there is a possibility that you are executing an innocent person, the death penalty should absolutely not exist

2:40 That guy literally looks like an angel and talks like one too

“everyone deserves a second chance” oh I beg to differ

I think the people who said "everyone can be reformed" or something along those lines are too naive about what some humans are capable of. Sometimes, certain people need to be kept away from society.

I highly disagree with the man who said that everyone can be reformed. People who mess with kids will never change and need to be thrown into a dark hole in the middle of nowhere.

the last input is very enlightening. thank you and i'm so sorry for your loss.

This is the best and most nuanced video you’ve ever produced imo and I’m happy to see it. This sort of content makes me perceive this channel as legitimate and thought provoking as opposed to a dating channel.

I can recommend the book "The sun does shine" by Anthony Ray Hinton who tells his own story about being on death row for 30 years while being innocent