@okohll @mekkaokereke
There's a fundamental difference in how European and US cultures see the concept itself of a sentence.
In USA - and in many other places, btw - the sentence is first of all, and by large, the punishment for a crime. So an awful crime deserves an awful sentence (death).
In other cultures - like in most European nations - the punishment is also seen from a rehabilitation standpoint: every criminal can be socially redeemed. But you cannot redeem the dead, so a death sentence makes no sense. Depending on your religious or philosophical position, there could also be the fact that life is sacred. Anyone's life.
So, I think that death sentences are a closed issue here in Europe. There should be a massive shift-right change in politics to put the issue on the table again. I'm quite skeptic that things could change even in that scenario.
There's a fundamental difference in how European and US cultures see the concept itself of a sentence.
In USA - and in many other places, btw - the sentence is first of all, and by large, the punishment for a crime. So an awful crime deserves an awful sentence (death).
In other cultures - like in most European nations - the punishment is also seen from a rehabilitation standpoint: every criminal can be socially redeemed. But you cannot redeem the dead, so a death sentence makes no sense. Depending on your religious or philosophical position, there could also be the fact that life is sacred. Anyone's life.
So, I think that death sentences are a closed issue here in Europe. There should be a massive shift-right change in politics to put the issue on the table again. I'm quite skeptic that things could change even in that scenario.