President Donald Trump is calling for federal prosecutors to push for the death penalty in capital cases involving undocumented people. The move was one of dozens of executive orders the president signed on day one of his second term.

  • catloaf@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    It’s not cheaper to execute people, either. Even if convicted, they still get their appeals, which costs court and lawyer time and money, plus the imprisonment. Even if they exhaust their appeals, they sit on death row until the state actually manages to execute them, which is getting more difficult due to lack of executioners and method of execution materials (e.g. the lethal injection items).

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      It’s not cheaper to execute people with our current legal framework. After we get 30,000 people in Guantanamo bay and illegal immigration has become a crime punishable by death, things could change.

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        They only started killing them in the 40s because they ran out of room. It’s the logical, horrific conclusion to permanent detention of millions of people.

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          I think they want to fast track it. These are the people who masturbate over their piles of firearms hoping someone breaks into their house so they can legally murder someone.

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      it’s actually quite a bit more expensive to execute someone than to house them for life.

      Much to the surprise of many who, logically, would assume that shortening someone’s life should be cheaper than paying for it until natural expiration, it turns out that it is actually cheaper to imprison someone for life than to execute them. In fact, it is almost 10 times cheaper! One might ask, “how can that be?”

      source: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/which-is-cheaper-execution-or-life-in-prison-without-parole-31614

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        Of course, all of those costs are related to giving people fair trials and weighing previous evidence and considering that previous trials might have gotten things wrong.

        In Trump’s America, you’re guilty until proven innocent, so none of that applies.