Comment on Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• quicklime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s worse than murder because

  • the state MUST be held to the highest standard;
  • the state has the resources to do other than kill;
  • execution ends up costing the state more than life imprisonment or better solutions;
  • because someone who is ready to murder typically already does not fear punishment of any severity;
  • because resources spent on decreasing economic inequality decrease the murder rate far more effectively than capital punishment ever can;
  • etc.

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I agree overall, but the cost argument has always been a joke to me. It doesn’t NEED to cost more, but they allow companies to monopolize everything in this country and tie their friends into legislation, even pertaining to murdering people, so they can charge whatever they want for their “products” and they don’t have to worry about competition.

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    • quicklime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Right? And meanwhile the alternatives also cost more than they ought to if our whole system weren’t so fully captured by profit seeking.

      It seems our species as a whole has deep problems of greed, corruption, nepotism… we’re fundamentally, maybe even genetically, not very close to systemically social and selfless behavior. We turn any system of government and economy and social structure to the benefit of an elite few eventually.

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