Comment by zdragnar
5 months ago
The right to a trial by jury was specifically meant to prevent personal bias from the judge affecting the outcome of the trial.
Letting juries perform executions and judges be responsible for the imprisonment of the guilty just creates a massive perverse incentive for sadistic individuals.
You wrongly assume that either judge or jury would be more empathetic if they were burdened with the weight of these things. Instead, you'll get the people you least want in charge of these things doing them.
Aside from the method of using blanks at executions, everything else about the system protects the convicted, not the people in the system itself.
not just the moral piece, but the passive nature. Once I do this, then it goes to the next person. I don't need wait for the taxpayer to come by and demand ransom for my work to send money off to the capital so they can fund wars in far away lands, it just comes right out of my paycheque