• DrCake@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Public executions used to be common and yet people still murdered. It clearly isn’t a deterrent and worse case you execute an innocent person.

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      8 months ago

      The problem being that it may give them more a tamgible sense of death rather than of consequences.

      It seems that murders are committed in scenarios where consideration of the consequences is not even on the radar, instead it’s some sudden rage or psychopathy, and I could believe either to be stoked by witnessing execution desensitizing then to violent death.