Gotta love how, after a series of botched executions by lethal injection, dozens of executed inmates later found to be innocent, and most major drug manufacturers refusing to sell states the drugs required, Amerikkka has decided to just switch back to the old way of killing people instead of making any positive change
Any argument about the death penalty is always this:
“There is no evidence it reduces crime, it’s more expensive than life imprisonment, life imprisonment does the exact same thing since it keeps the criminals away from society, but doesn’t have the downside of being irreversible if the person is exonerated, there’s no justification for the death penalty.”
“Yeah, but… have you considered that I want those guys killed?”
I remember hearing that the cost to execute the death penalty is significantly more expensive than life imprisonment with regards to the layers and layers of judicial and legal bureaucracy and procedures that have to be performed in order to legally enact it vs permanently incarcerating someone.
This is 100% correct. The cost is in the appeals process.
And even with the extensive appeals process, we still wind up executing innocent people. There really isn’t any excuse to use the death penalty outside of a revolutionary context, and even then, Mao’s treatment of Emperor Puyi is in every way superior if you have the luxury to do it.
“Hey boss, we keep running out of lethal injection drugs because they know we keep using them to kill people and won’t sell us anymore”
“WE NEED TO KEEP KILLING, THE BLOOD MUST FLOW LEST I LOSE MY GUBERNATORIAL POWERS”
Reminder that the death penalty is both irrational and immoral and any socialist revolution should do away with it, especially in peace time
Reminder that South Carolina was the first state to secede because they were scared that slavery was going away.
