I agree with the death penalty in principle. In practice, I would only agree with it under the dictatorship of the proletariat because a bourgeois state should not have that amount of power.
I’m all for rehabilitative justice, but if it can be proven beyond any reasonable doubt that you:
- intentionally murdered an innocent person
- raped someone
- molested a child
- are a nazi
- committed war crimes
then you have forfeited your right to be a part of society and should be removed from it. Imo there is no amount of re-education or rehabilitation that can fix a person who has done any of the aforementioned things.
Thoughts?
This may seem dismissive but I’d recommend you take a look at the previous thread that talked about it here, and the even older one here.
TLDR: Depends on the country and its conditions, as always. No point in discussing such issues without socio-historical context. It’d be idealism otherwise.
your point is a good one, fantasizing about socialist policies in a new hypotetical socialist country is borderline idealism, we can make models for sure but the material codnitions are what impose certain policies, like when the material conditions of the late 70s forced China to adopt mor of a market system or when the material conditions in the USSR forced the NEP