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Justice demands it. As a compromise, we could do it as a special military tribunal a la Nuremberg rather than having it be the regular law of the land
Any death penalty will create wrongful executions. It simply can never be perfect. How many innocent people is it acceptable to execute as long as we also execute guilty people?
To me that is none.
Any death penalty also means that there is an incredibly high level of trust in the government to be accurate and thorough and not corrupt. In the US thats the same government that allows the Epstein class to walk free right now. You trust them to wield death penalty?
I don't think they executed any innocent people at Nuremburg. This isn't like the death penalty for a given crime like murder, where you can get the wrong guy. We know exactly who they are, there's no ambiguity or any need for an investigation to find the guilty party.
This would not be the Epstein government doing the executions, in this scenario they would be the ones being executed
and yet the death penalty that exists today and is used today HAS killed innocent people. You know how we can prevent that? stop executing people.
Stealing billions is stealing hundreds and thousands of lifetimes of work from society. When crimes are at that scale they should receive the kind of attention that ensures 100%, that the accused will receive a punishment equal to the lives they have destroyed through greed.