It's true that the death penalty is not a deterrant, but I think it's safe to say that prison isn't either - look around.
Very true. The way prison sentences use to work worked much better IMO; sentences were indeterminate and fluid. You stayed until you were rehabilitated and then you were released. It changed because people yelled about felons being sentenced to ten years and doing two so now there's a clause that says you must do at least 80% of your time. And the sentencing nowadays is ridiculous, did you know that statistically speaking you spend more time in prison for marijuana possession than you do more some counts of murder?
Sticking them in a tiny room costs already-burdened taxpayers a great deal more than two or three 9mm bullets. The only reason the death penalty is expensive is because of decades of litigation and appeals, not because of the penalty itself.
True, the cost is less but if the American Justice System had fair sentencing we'd be able to do away with the death penalty without a giant tax-jump. Like I said above one of the big problems is that in our "War on Drugs" we're overcrowding the prisons with non-violent idiots who are killing themselves slowly. I say send 'em to rehab and turn them back out, making some guy who goes and gets stoned with his friends sit in a cell for a year won't do anything except maybe make him think about hiding his stash better.
It's perfectly alright that the death penalty doesn't deter people from committing crime. It stops the guy who did it, and that's enough.
True, it does stop that guy, but what happens when his kid gets pissed off at The System for "wrongly" killing his dad and then goes out and shoots a bunch of cops?
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Very true. The way prison sentences use to work worked much better IMO; sentences were indeterminate and fluid. You stayed until you were rehabilitated and then you were released. It changed because people yelled about felons being sentenced to ten years and doing two so now there's a clause that says you must do at least 80% of your time. And the sentencing nowadays is ridiculous, did you know that statistically speaking you spend more time in prison for marijuana possession than you do more some counts of murder?
Sticking them in a tiny room costs already-burdened taxpayers a great deal more than two or three 9mm bullets. The only reason the death penalty is expensive is because of decades of litigation and appeals, not because of the penalty itself.
True, the cost is less but if the American Justice System had fair sentencing we'd be able to do away with the death penalty without a giant tax-jump. Like I said above one of the big problems is that in our "War on Drugs" we're overcrowding the prisons with non-violent idiots who are killing themselves slowly. I say send 'em to rehab and turn them back out, making some guy who goes and gets stoned with his friends sit in a cell for a year won't do anything except maybe make him think about hiding his stash better.
It's perfectly alright that the death penalty doesn't deter people from committing crime. It stops the guy who did it, and that's enough.
True, it does stop that guy, but what happens when his kid gets pissed off at The System for "wrongly" killing his dad and then goes out and shoots a bunch of cops?