President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind bars — a decision that leaves only three federal prisoners awaiting execution when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month.
We need to quit wasting time and resources on these type of shooters and bad people get them gone and let’s grow better as a civilization.
Those resources could be utilized in a more appropriate fashion such as wrongful conviction cases or anything to help better humanity in any way rather than 70k a year to keep each inmate and its not the monetary value its the goods and services value. Resource cost.
If we had a perfectly equal system, I would be in favor of the death penalty but we don’t. That means we are executing a wildly disproportionate amount of poor black men. I can’t support such a system.
We need to quit wasting time and resources on these type of shooters and bad people get them gone and let’s grow better as a civilization.
While I understand your position, I disagree. Instead of death, if we do our best to learn about these people and prevent further destruction we’ll all be better off (if that means life imprisonment, then so be it). I’m sure there are plenty of criminologists willing to curate that knowledge.
If we learn more about them, then we gain the tools to grow better as a civilisation as you put it.
That’s basically what Biden is doing here. In the US executing someone is magnitudes more expensive than life in prison. Depending on the state it can be anywhere from 2 to 10 times more expensive than life in prison.
We need to quit wasting time and resources on these type of shooters and bad people get them gone and let’s grow better as a civilization.
Those resources could be utilized in a more appropriate fashion such as wrongful conviction cases or anything to help better humanity in any way rather than 70k a year to keep each inmate and its not the monetary value its the goods and services value. Resource cost.
I guess I am pro death penalty.
If we had a perfectly equal system, I would be in favor of the death penalty but we don’t. That means we are executing a wildly disproportionate amount of poor black men. I can’t support such a system.
While I understand your position, I disagree. Instead of death, if we do our best to learn about these people and prevent further destruction we’ll all be better off (if that means life imprisonment, then so be it). I’m sure there are plenty of criminologists willing to curate that knowledge.
If we learn more about them, then we gain the tools to grow better as a civilisation as you put it.
That’s basically what Biden is doing here. In the US executing someone is magnitudes more expensive than life in prison. Depending on the state it can be anywhere from 2 to 10 times more expensive than life in prison.
And that’s before you factor in that something like half (or more) of the people who are executed are later found to be innocent of the crime.
This alone is reason enough imo