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[El Jason]

That means they should be removed from society without any corresponding burden, such as paying for them in a prison for 50 years.

 

[Treeshark]

I wonder what this botched Tennessee execution attempt is going to wind up costing when it’s all said and done?

 

[Gulf of America]

It’s funny to me that the people who don’t trust the government to competently handle the taxes on their paycheck so adamantly believe the government can responsibly handle executing Americans.

 

[Nick87]

It’s funny to me that the people who don’t trust the government to competently handle the taxes on their paycheck so adamantly believe the government can responsibly handle executing Americans.

What people? I don't honestly trust them to run a lemonade stand. They execute people every single day and squander tax money whether I trust them or not.

 

[cgasner1]

It’s funny to me that the people who don’t trust the government to competently handle the taxes on their paycheck so adamantly believe the government can responsibly handle executing Americans.

The two kinds go hand in hand don’t they? Our jail systems apparently have the highest population and a lot of them aren’t gonna get out why are we wasting tax dollars on that? I’d bet if people still swing from a rope in a timely manner it would save us more money that just room and board

 

[BuzzH]

While in law school, I worked on an innocence project and while there are some individuals who are wrongly convicted, it is a much, much lower percentage than many realize. The data shows we are talking in the 1-3% range. When that does happen, those individuals should absolutely be remunerated. When that doesn’t happen and an individual has been convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, that is what our law requires, and they should suffer the correlating consequences.

Considering our prison population, that means somewhere between 18,000-54,000 people are currently in prison when they shouldn't be. That's the problem with big numbers to start with...

 

[Nick87]

Totally get what everyone is saying about the wrongfully convicted people being failed by the system, thats terrible. What about all the innocent people who get killed, raped, whatever by repeat offenders that are let back into society. Are they not failed by the system in the same way?

 

[cgasner1]

Considering our prison population, that means somewhere between 18,000-54,000 people are currently in prison when they shouldn't be. That's the problem with big numbers to start with...

Totally get what everyone is saying about the wrongfully convicted people being failed by the system, thats terrible. What about all the innocent people who get killed, raped, whatever by repeat offenders that are let back into society. Are they not failed by the system in the same way?

I’d say putting these posts together on th end of the spectrum @Nick87 is talking about you could save the tax payers a lot of money with a little bit of rope. I doubt many people are wrongly convicted of horrible crimes of that nature multiple times

 

[El Jason]

Are they not failed by the system in the same way?

Yes, the system failed them.

 

[thomas89]

I have learned to take these conversations with a grain of salt and understand where people come from has a drastic difference in their view on repeat crime/offenders/punishment/capital punishment.

My theory is the smaller of a bubble and/or less impacted you are by it, you are far more tolerant of habitual criminal activity and with that, you will put the guilt on the innocent party for not being more tolerant of having THEIR rights violated.