Yeah it’s a weird confidence in the justice of the afterlife.
If you want the maximum amount of suffering for the perpetrator (something the US justice system seems eager to) then killing them only with it if there’s a Satan grilling his ass. If their existence just ends it’s rather merciful.
So even if you are hell bent on having a punitive sentencing system (even though it’s proven to be unhelpful for everybody involved) the death sentence doesn’t make sense at all.
A life sentence where the perpetrator is kept alive for as long as possible, against their will (which is ironicall supposed the merciful thing according to the pro life folks (who also overlap with pro death sentence folk, interestingly)) is technically the most severe form of punishment.
Yeah it’s a weird confidence in the justice of the afterlife.
If you want the maximum amount of suffering for the perpetrator (something the US justice system seems eager to) then killing them only with it if there’s a Satan grilling his ass. If their existence just ends it’s rather merciful.
So even if you are hell bent on having a punitive sentencing system (even though it’s proven to be unhelpful for everybody involved) the death sentence doesn’t make sense at all.
A life sentence where the perpetrator is kept alive for as long as possible, against their will (which is ironicall supposed the merciful thing according to the pro life folks (who also overlap with pro death sentence folk, interestingly)) is technically the most severe form of punishment.