Hear Hear!
But don’t neglect to realize that one of the major reasons heavy punishment like that and in general was softened and terminated was due to political scum railroading accused people along to death and lengthy incarcerations just for the political capital it generated. The currently party of Hate America and liberty is currently fielding a candidate who reaped political capital from the life-hours of substance users.
Punishments have to be sane, appropriate, and non-political. The death penalty was deemed unconstitutional by a liberal SCOTUS. Let me take a look.
https://hls.harvard.edu/today/the-end-of-the-death-penalty/
More than 50 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty was an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. With that, 629 people on death row nationwide had their capital sentences commuted, and the death penalty disappeared overnight.
“Furman was neither a tremendous success nor a terrible failure but a complicated story of unintended consequences and echoes of Furman continue to this day to have tremendous impact.”
Carol Steiker
But Furman didn’t abolish capital punishment for very long. Four years later, Gregg v. Georgia and several companion cases made clear that governments could impose capital punishment under certain conditions. Those decisions were a response to the backlash sparked by Furman, which appeared to revive support for a practice that had been in sharp decline for years. Today, 27 states in the U.S., as well as the federal government, retain the death penalty, and as of April 2022, one source reported that there were 2,414 people on death row across the country. Despite what many would have predicted in 1972, when the Furman decision suggested the U.S. would become an international leader in eliminating the death penalty, today it’s the only Western democracy that still imposes it.