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Re:Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars with Just a Licens... by wesselbindt on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:42AM (#41666628)
Given how flagrantly governments have been using pedophiles as an excuse for curtailing our right to privacy, I don't trust them to execute civilians for this reason (or any). False convictions (intentionally so, in worse-governed countries) are a thing, and I do not cheer for the prospect of giving the government yet another reason to murder its citizens.

Advocacy in favor of the death penalty is never about "death penalty for murderers/rapists" but "death penalty for people convicted of being murderers/rapists". Practice has shown there's a big difference

Re:Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars with Just a Licens... by IanCal on Friday September 27, 2024 @03:52AM (#41667483)
At its core, a death penalty is permission for the government to kill its own citizens.

That's a pretty big step, and to me it requires a lot of benefits to justify.

Re:Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars with Just a Licens... by coding123 on Sunday September 29, 2024 @06:25PM (#41691337)
Many people that escape prison kill people immediately after doing so. Either in the process of running from the law or simply taking over a house for a few days of cover.

It seems to me like taking care of business before that happens is a more beneficial thing.