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Why should good people have keep watch over these kinds of criminals? Isn't that barbaric? The time and the labor could be better spent elsewhere. Every guar
by baguasquirrel 17y ago
Why should good people have keep watch over these kinds of criminals? Isn't that barbaric?
The time and the labor could be better spent elsewhere. Every guard we hire, every prison we build, is a hospital that couldn't be built, a teacher who couldn't be hired. I feel this is barbaric towards those in need who've done no wrong.
- tome 17y agoWasn't the parent's point that it's cheaper to imprison for life than it is to execute? http://www.nyadp.org/main/faq#0 http://www.nyadp.org/main/faq#0
- JacobAldridge 17y agoInteresting. I had always just assumed, obviously speciously, that executing somebody would be a lot cheaper than feeding, clothing, housing, and guarding them for 40+ years. The source isn't unbiased, of course, but it's made me want to re-check my assumptions.
- hugh_ 17y agoIt's largely economics of scale. The linked post says that New York State is spending vast sums of money just to house twelve inmates on death row, so obviously it would be cheaper to throw those twelve inmates into the existing prison system for life. On the other hand, if we were to execute a thousand prisoners per year then it would start to get a whole lot cheaper. For instance, I'd be in favour of executing the scrote that stole my bike.
- baguasquirrel 17y agoThen fix the death penalty!
- drhodes 17y agoBecause people aren't born criminals. Cause and effect works throughout society. These monsters didn't make themselves, everyone had a part in it.