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"somebody who got a death penalty won't come back" What percentage of the US prison population is on death row?

• formerly_proven 5y ago
  0.1 %
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• johannes1234321 5y ago
  Of course that was the most extreme example. Let's compare "lifelong sentence" in Germany you have a high chance to get out after 15 years. (There is a mechanism for true lifelong, but that's then more of a psychiatric treatment than jail) Point is: Comparing some statistic without context is not easy