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Yeah, electroshock therapy and lobotomies are much better than killing or imprisoning people.
Careful there, I never said that. Psychiatry and psychology aren't the same thing you know.
The point of the death penalty is to remove a criminal who cannot be reformed from society permanently.
That is an unproven assertion, and the death penalty has been used more than once against people who showed that they reformed. Also, conviction does not imply guilt, and killing people is quite irreversible.
Life in prison does the exact same thing, but in a much less efficient way. It is no less cruel than simply killing the person.
I agree. There's a better way, and god damn it it sure ain't state-sanctioned murder.