CMV: The death penalty should never be used

I have slightly more unique reasons for believing this. I'll start with the more common one.

Firstly, we do not rape rapists, we do not torture torturers, so not killing killers is only being morally consistent.

Secondly, it is much better to let someone live because of our feelings than to die because of our feelings. Giving people the death penalty has more to do with how we feel than actual logic. And I know this because black men are more likely to get the death penalty than white men in America. This shows the emotional and racial bias that goes into this and it'd be much better if we didn't allow that to happen. And I've also noticed how people are more likely to shout “execute him” or “cut his balls off” when a man rapes a little girl but when a female teacher rapes a little boy nothing like that is ever said. I feel like the death penalty only exists because of our bias and fear of men in general.

We can't let the way we feel about a person decide whether they should live. Instead we should do what is practical like…

Well here's the interesting argument I've been thinking of for a while:

We shouldn't kill criminals because we should be studying them instead. Especially the ones who commit common crimes. There are crimes that are committed in every country in the world. And we should learn more about the people who do them. Murder, rape, armed robbery, domestic abuse. All of these crimes happen literally every day on planet earth. We should be devoting more time to understanding their behavior, their psychology and the way they think. Figuring out what makes people more likely to be violent and everything that we're made of.

Brain scans and minor experiments should be done. There might also be other ways to test them that I'm not aware of.

Conclusion: No one should ever be put on death row because we should be morally consistent, not rely on our emotions and also recognise that every human has a use and study criminals.

Edit: A lot of you keep bringing up tax payer money which is entirely irrelevant. It's got nothing to do with morality unless of course you're arguing that the money going into prisons is causing the country to sink. Which it isn't.