On why Germany should reintroduce death penalty

Germany has abolished any form of capital punishment in 1949 in response to the crimes against humanity committed during the Third Reich and in an effort to become a more humane state. While it is true that the right to execute criminals has been misused in the past, there are cases in which capital punishment should be applied today. The maximum jail sentence in Germany is fifteen years, which can only be extended by preventive custody. This option is used for convicts who are too dangerous to ever be released again. These individuals spend their lives in imprisonment, but with an abundance of comfort such as free healthcare and accommodation, while Germany has an increasing number of homeless and has to mourn the death by freezing of some of them each winter. So why can the state pay for individuals who ended up in jail due to their willfully committed crimes, but not for people who ended up living on the streets not due to their own wrongdoing? In an effort to become more humane, the state has become cynically unjust as to who they really want to help – a homeless or a mass murderer of children. I personally think that by now the state can be trusted not to misuse this sentence, and that it is necessary to reintroduce it.