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what's even the point of death row
| Ye, the justice system never gets anything wrong anyway, so you either don't do the death penalty or you save lots of state funds by just killing people who commit felonies on the spot. For people who commit small crimes, maybe slavery for a few years. And everything gets solved in a completely humane way.
| You have a very loose definition of humane
| Satire aside, I'd say there's a case to be made that it's more humane to kill someone then confine them to conditions like those of federal prison for life.
Similarly, if I had the option I'd take the lash or cane over doing time. Why the fuck would it be more humane to waste years of someone's life?
| Add to that that American prisons are pretty fucked up. No attempt at recovery or rehabilitation. It's kind of like a temporary death.
As for death row, it seems kind of redundant: keeping the people scheduled for death alive for an extra decade or so. Either be done with it or don't do it. It wastes space, time of the prison guards and justice system, and resources.
| Yeah just relabel gulags, labour and death camps with "liberty" and "patriotic" and folks who complain about evil communism suddenly love exactly the kind of stuff that went wrong in communism.
"Patriotic concentration camps of liberty" to save the white males from discrimination and opression by evil jewish-bolshevist/feminist-lgbt/communist-liberal/immigrant-muslim-Latino-nigger conspiracy.
| The worst part is I honestly cant tell wheter death would be better than prison. This one black dude spent 40 years in prison when a white chick lied about him raping her. 40 years of his life down the drain. He wouldve been better off dead so he would be free from that shit
| I mean you are not wrong. If a person is a adult and does something to harm another person by either assault or steal why not kill on sight. Its just dangerous because who decides what is a killable offense
| Modern prisons as a thing were made around the 17th century. Note that another name for a prison is a correctional facility. This should hint to you the purpose of a prison. There was a popular idea at that point that prisoners are taught wrong and can be corrected into functioning back into society.
I assume, since I'm not very familiar with the history of the death penalty, but that's placed onto prisoners that are assumed to not be correctable back into society. Sociopaths etc
| Why does a person who commits an extremely heinous act where society decided their life is forfeit get to not suffer in prison his whole life.
Death Penalty at a point just seems like a mercy.
Aside from the fact people are also too commonly (as in "at all") found innocent post-mortem.
| >>377287 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wilbert-jones-prisoner-released-46-years-jail-rape-conviction-overturned-nurse-kidnapping-louisiana-a8055546.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cim0UYkCPiQ
https://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/06/innocent-teen-sentenced-life-freed-after-40-years This shit happens.
Going free after 40 years, afaik, only happens in cases with a lifelong prison sentence in which the accused was found not guilty in the end.
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| why bother doing all these administration when the cops can kill people on the street no problem anyway. why don't just gun down all the suspects. that way, everyone's job becomes eaier ¯\_(ツ)_/¯