I distrust the government to do the killing and determining of guilt.
How about this. The Why Gary Why solution. If a suspect is found guilty of a capital crime, the state cannot kill them. But the victims will not be charged for any retaliatory justice they take (within reason of course) It's fine to walk up and shoot them in the head in 5th avenue and as long as they don't hurt anyone else that's legal, but going full law abiding citizen on them is too far and a crime.
But that doesn’t solve the real thing you said you distrust, does it? The government is presumably still determining guilt through trial, it’s just that they’ve outsourced carrying out the sentence.
Is it? Since the task passing of the death sentence is in the exact same process, it doesn’t change the odds of an incorrect conviction at all. All it does is add uncertainty as to whether that sentence will be carried out, which is a big problem if you get family members like Mollie Tibbetts’ dad. Or in the case of any criminal capable of hiding from or protecting himself from the family members.
It also has the downside of allowing social pressure on the family to stop an execution. Do you think some middle class White family is going to execute Jaquantrius at the risk of getting cancelled and losing their income? It places the burden and consequences of meting out justice on the victims.
I distrust the government to do the killing and determining of guilt.
How about this. The Why Gary Why solution. If a suspect is found guilty of a capital crime, the state cannot kill them. But the victims will not be charged for any retaliatory justice they take (within reason of course) It's fine to walk up and shoot them in the head in 5th avenue and as long as they don't hurt anyone else that's legal, but going full law abiding citizen on them is too far and a crime.
But that doesn’t solve the real thing you said you distrust, does it? The government is presumably still determining guilt through trial, it’s just that they’ve outsourced carrying out the sentence.
No but it's an improvement.
Is it? Since the task passing of the death sentence is in the exact same process, it doesn’t change the odds of an incorrect conviction at all. All it does is add uncertainty as to whether that sentence will be carried out, which is a big problem if you get family members like Mollie Tibbetts’ dad. Or in the case of any criminal capable of hiding from or protecting himself from the family members.
It also has the downside of allowing social pressure on the family to stop an execution. Do you think some middle class White family is going to execute Jaquantrius at the risk of getting cancelled and losing their income? It places the burden and consequences of meting out justice on the victims.