How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’.
How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’.
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How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’
The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.
At least this way the wrongly convicted might get justice.
Better a thousand murderers rot in prison than a single innocent person murdered by the people.
I also think I'd rather have a murderer waste away every minute of their life, than take the easy way out of being dead. Killing them doesn't seem like much of a punishment to me.
The wrongly convicted might also get beaten to death by guards or a fellow inmate while waiting for justice. They could also be raped or any other type of sexual assault while waiting for justice. It's a tricky dick, this "justice" system. I'm not even sure it's fair to classify someone who was "wrongfully convicted" as someone who can realistically get justice because the system can't give them their lives back, which is an injustice.
Often, even after clearing their names, their past convictions continue to haunt them and make it impossible to move forward in their lives, even though they've supposedly been quashed. A lot of data services selling people's data these days, and they're not all current or accurate.
None of that is justice.
What’s your point? You’d rather execute them?