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To paraphrase John Oliver, I believe thinking of the death penalty from the perspective of "them" (being our worst people) is the wrong way to go about it. It's not about them. It's about us.

It's about our modern evolved society and what it means for us to wish to seek death for the worst of us. What does that say about us? That we're vengeful? That we're bloodthirsty? That we consider ourselves worthy of judging someone to death?

That we'll handwave it away by making an argument about "wasting resources" on a number of people in the double digits out of the billions on this planet?