what happens if that person will never be a contributor to society or a net drain?

Then that is a failing of society, not just the individual

perhaps

do you believe in capital punishment?

No

but life sentence is fine?

Being in prison the rest of your life, to me, is worse than death, but I feel its's acceptable because a society shouldn't murder its own members unless it can help it. The death penalty can be abused and the innocent cannot reclaim their lives.

In the above I'm assuming you mean a life sentence means life, as the majority of the time it doesn't.

yeah, because the thing is

I support capital punishment but in certain cases only

the reason why people don't support capital punishment is because of the way its handed out

i don't support it because the judge and jury are people and they make mistakes

There are all kinds of things that can be done to reform criminals into useful, positive people, and although I am not removing blame from people for the actions they choose to commit, to a certain extent society has produced this person

I have trust in my country's judicial system

but in other country's ones

not so

it's not about trust, it's about people making mistakes which can and does happen

what about corporal punishment, or public shaming

sure, but what happens if its beyond a doubt

I come from singapore

we're famous for caning people

but nobody questions the process because we're rigourous on it

it is supposed to be beyond reasonable doubt, but even in good systems mistakes happen

and a capital punishment is not a mistake that can be fixed

yes, that's why even in singapore, we don't dish it out regularly

people think we cane everyone or we hang every single drug trafficker we lay our hands on

that's incorrect

plus death row in the us is gendered

98% of death row inmates were male

oh

yeah, then that's the problem

we hang both genders regardless

the law is blind to gender

i'm more for not hanging anyone but i get your point of view

I think capital punishment should not be used unless for the most sinister of crimes

when its beyond a doubt

justice has to speak up for the vicitim

example, we had a serial murderer here before

chopped up his victims

into tiny pieces

not a single murder mind you

maybe with a single murder, a lawyer could argue to get your charge dropped down to manslaughter