Life Imprisonment Or Death Penalty?

I remembered that I wrote about the need to be cautious about reinstating the death penalty. The reason behind my argument is that the faulty Philippine judicial system has nearly ended the lives of two innocent people namely Hubert Webb and Paco Larranaga. The Vizconde Massacre trial and the Chiong Sisters trial turned out to be very one-sided. Singapore doesn't have a good economy because of the death penalty - it has a good economy because of its adherence to free trade policies. Even some presidential countries like Taiwan and South Korea (where the death penalty is non-existent) have good economies because of free trade policies.

The argument for life imprisonment isn't always from a pro-life side. Sometimes, it's possibly just your sadistic side showing up. Do you remember the Boysen commercial where the person ended up growing old in jail? The person really has a huge miserable existence. I don't think I'd want to spend the rest of my life in jail eating prison food, having no freedom in the outside world, tallying my number of days, maybe grow old inside it and end up realizing that the prison has been repainted only after I grew old. I think that alone would be very scary to think if you're in a country like Germany where self-defense laws are generous and criminal offenses are taken very seriously. In fact, life imprisonment at times feels like a death sentence in itself.

The other side is that it'd be a waste of taxpayers' money to keep feeding prisoners. Sure, their meals aren't delicious but they're still kept alive. The death penalty argument is that progressive countries like Singapore, China, Taiwan, and Malaysia practice it against heinous crimes. Do you know that it's not the death penalty that made them progressive but free trade that gave them the revenues? Others would say that it would help lessen crime but it's not effective all the time. North Korea executes several people per day but it's still a poor country. South Korea has none of it yet it's a progressive country.

I'm pro-death penalty myself yet I would want to only reserve it for big-time criminals (such as corrupt politicians) and the need to fix the judicial systems first before re-implementing it. Laws against perjury need to be strengthened to prevent cases like Webb and Larranaga from ever happening. It's a problem that perjury is made light off and Maria Ressa was able to get free (on bail) even after of making heavy false accusations against Wilfredo Keng. Right now, I'm more willing to have all talks for the death penalty suspended indefinitely in favor of economic and political reforms since policies to prevent crime need to be addressed first.