• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      It’s alright to put a person in jail for 90 consecutive life terms and never look back. Feel good about ourselves because if we got it wrong, we “could” look into it.

      Death penalty should be used sparingly

      Wife poisons her husband? No because there’s never going to be 100% proof

      Kid shoots up a school? Yes because you know it was them 100%

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          4 days ago

          Yeah, I’m not trying to argue either

          The perfect world wouldn’t need a death penalty, yet we don’t live in a perfect world.

          To me, spending ~50k a year to keep a person behind bars is not worth it.

          An 18 year old school shooter has ~60 years behind bars.

          That’s 3 million dollars

          Do you know how many lives you can save or improve for 3 million dollars?

          Thats if the cost of incarnation doesn’t increase in 60 years…

          Thats not counting all the interest you could earn from investing the money for 60 years…

          It’s millions of dollars

          That school shooter is 100% guilty and will never, hopefully, get out of prison.

          It’s inhumane to just keep them locked in a box for 60 years

          But if you want to pay millions to a private prison because “The school shooter might be innocent”. Even with videos, eye witnesses, and cops arresting them with a gun.

          Then okay. Doesn’t make sense to me.