Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years
MrPoletki@feddit.uk 1 week agoIf you support the re-introducing the death penalty, then you must accept that at some point in the future, somebody will be executed for a crime that they are innocent of.
It is inevitable and rules it out for me.
SleafordMod@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Yeah that makes sense. But on the other hand, jailing people for life costs money and there’s the slim chance they can escape. But I suppose if you have good security then a full life sentence would be an effective deterrent, so maybe you wouldn’t have to pay for very many people to have such long sentences, so it might not cost so much.
MrPoletki@feddit.uk 1 week ago
You may be surprised just how much death row costs. Part of being ‘absolutely sure’ is not executing until all possibilities of appeal and such are exhausted, and well, if your scheduled to be killed most people will do whatever they can to delay it for as long as possible, or even better get it overturned. Some end up on death row for decades.
SleafordMod@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Good points to be honest.