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?
I only support the death penalty during the process of post-revolution purges. Killing reactionary generals, colonels, chiefs of police and even politicians is all fine by me. Assuming they get fair trials of course. Once the revolution is consolidated it should be abolished. The only exception should be during war times.