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The last few years have changed my mind on capital punishment. If the rich and corrupt rig the system to completely avoid all punishment for their crimes against millions, the guillotine is justice. With great power comes great responsibility, and abandoning that responsibility for personal gain at the expense of the lives of thousands of other people should result in the most severe punishment possible.
Why? What purpose does that serve?
Self-defence. They've harmed us all once, they will strive to do it again, and they cannot be rehabilitated. They could never be trusted to rejoin society, or even to socialize among themselves. Given the remaining alternative of perpetual solitary confinement execution would actually likely be more humane.
Fully divesting them from their ability to avoid justice via power and money.
If you're in a position to livestream a mass execution, they have no more power.
Eh, ghislane maxwell has been in custody for years at this point, but is probably going to skate because she is owed favors for her silence from people in power.
I used to think exactly like you, but between Epstein and the panama papers, the rich and powerful have shown that they are too well connected, dangerous, and have corrupted the justice system to such a point that the only way to guarantee justice is for them to not exist anymore.