• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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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.