>No, because these people have done terrible things, and society will not allow them to be redeemed.
Society can do much more than we give it credit for. Not all societies hold primitive eye-for-an-eye beliefs or worse.
>I object to the knee-jerk reaction that the death penalty is inherently bad, in all cases, under any circumstances
Well, societies that abolished it don't think so. At least their legislators and majority don't. Outliers will always think whatever they want (and grieving relatives of victims and such are the last that should be asked in those matters).
For me the death penalty is not different from things like torture, slavery, judicial rape, etc. Wrong under any circumstances.
Society can do much more than we give it credit for. Not all societies hold primitive eye-for-an-eye beliefs or worse.
>I object to the knee-jerk reaction that the death penalty is inherently bad, in all cases, under any circumstances
Well, societies that abolished it don't think so. At least their legislators and majority don't. Outliers will always think whatever they want (and grieving relatives of victims and such are the last that should be asked in those matters).
For me the death penalty is not different from things like torture, slavery, judicial rape, etc. Wrong under any circumstances.