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There is one good reason to keep the status quo (death penalty without any actual deaths) which is that anyone given a death sentence gets their case extensivel
by danieltillett 10y ago
There is one good reason to keep the status quo (death penalty without any actual deaths) which is that anyone given a death sentence gets their case extensively reviewed and appealed by excellent lawyers working pro bono. The people who get life get no help at all.
I have read of prisioners being upset when given a life sentence as they know that no one will help them appeal their conviction. If you are innocent you want to be given a death sentence since you will have so many more people helping you get your conviction overturned.
- nothrabannosir 10y agoWhat's to say banning He death penalty entirely won't move that pro bono work to life sentences, even if only partially..?
- danieltillett 10y agoWell it might, but given it doesn’t now in states without the death penalty there is no reason to think it will in the future. I know if I was innocent and poor and had been convicted of a crime that was either life in prison or death that I would want a death sentence.