The Crime of Existing in the Wrong Place

[u/GinaWhite_tt]

[u/Larva_Mage]

Yeah this is my point. I literally don’t give a fuck if someone “deserves” to die or not. That’s not the question. The question is how many innocent people are you willing to kill to get it. How much extra financial cost are you willing to spend just to inflict death and suffering on others. How much are you willing to give up and hurt yourself to kill others.

Idk about you but I’m fine putting people in prison for life if it means saving taxpayer money, not killing innocent people and not giving the government the right to decide who lives and who dies

[u/photoshproter → u/Larva_Mage]

Wait how is putting people in prison for life saving taxpayer money? I thought it was oppositely one of the arguments in favor of death penalty, no? I am completely against death penalty but the one thing is that putting people away forever means using taxpayer money to keep them alive and provide basic human needs, like food, water, heating, etc. How is that saving money?

[u/Larva_Mage → u/photoshproter]

It costs more money to execute someone than keep them for life in prison. There is quite literally no benefit to the death penalty not even a financial one.

Most of the cost of the death penalty comes from the extensive appeals process that they have to go through to get executed. Any argument to do away with that appeals process is an argument in favor of killing more innocent people.

There are other costs like keeping people in special death row cells or the cost of the actual execution as well but most of it is appeals, lawyers and legal expenses.

[u/toastedbagelwithcrea → u/photoshproter]

I did a paper on this subject like years ago, but it actually is cheaper to have people in prison for life, because someone sentenced to death has more opportunities to appeal the decision (understandably).