A person can be killed instantly through many different means.
As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly.
If you instantly destroy a person’s entire brain then they died without pain.
Yet the most effective ways of instantly destroying someone’s entire brain are considered inhumane.
If instantly killing someone by smashing their head with a massive rock, or shooting them in the brain stem is inhumane, then there is no humane way to kill someone at all.
Why did you think killing someone (murder) could ever be humane in the first place?
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Sorry but do not include the rest of us in whatever you are trying to justify.
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144 countries had abolished the death penalty in law
Sorry, but there are more countries without the death penalty than with it.
Again, don’t include the sane nations in your we.
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And no one would qualify those as “humane” either. So the argument still stands.
How about euthanasia?
It’s a weird edge case that is between killing and assisted suicide, assuming there is consent.
Euthanasia without consent seems not so humane to me, but once again it is an edge case that is still hard to define.
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There is a difference, but if you start saying that shooting an invader is humane, you have a serious problem.
Most people are subject to the death penalty. The world population is approaching 8.1 billion souls. The ten most populous nations are India, China, the US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico, adding up to 4.6 billion – over half the planet.
Of those, only Mexico has abolished the death penalty (though Brazil is listed as “extreme only” and Russia is listed as “suspended”, having not officially executed anyone in the past decade*). Putting these together, at least 4.1 billion people out of the “first 4.6” that I looked at live under the specter of the death penalty.
I don’t think you can no-true-scotsman your way out of the simple fact that it’s still “normal” for humans to kill other humans. I also don’t think that acknowledging that fact requires that you endorse the practice.
*whoa, is this a case where RUSSIA is more sane than the USA?! Strange times.
I looked up the population info on https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ and cross-referenced with the site you posted.
To understand why it’s legal in the USA you have to first understand how the US’s government is structured. The Federal Government actually doesn’t hold that much power, the most power is held by the States which decide on issues like this for themselves.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/07/19/10-facts-about-the-death-penalty-in-the-u-s/
Oh, I understand quite well why it’s legal in the US. It’s been a topic of some debate my entire life here.
Because the death penalty exists.
Because people are currently sentenced to execution even in the United States.
To those humans who are sentenced to death, why not choose a method that is instantaneous death, rather than something that can potentially fail.
I’d rather die instantly from a rock or a 12 gauge shell to the head than be injected or electrocuted.
Here is a tip: The world is not the USA…
If you are complaining about something that happens in the USA, say so.
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144 countries had abolished the death penalty in law
The EU is a lot bigger than I thought…
Sorry, but there are more countries without the death penalty than with it.
The top 8 most populated countries still have it. Just those 8 (not including other countries where it’s legal) make up ~4.3 billion people. Over half of the global population.
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