I considered making a point about utilitarianism; that any vote that came out in favor of imprisonment was too flawed to be taken seriously, because the interests of the group dictated that to waste resources on a criminal would be an act of collective self-harm. But I argued myself down before I said anything. If we discounted any alternative, then we became a society – albeit a small one – that punished people for any kind of wrongdoing with death. Even if it was necessary, I wasn’t sure I wanted us to become that.
