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Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance
(www.theguardian.com)
State sponsored murder is still murder.
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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.
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.
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.
expect this to ramp up in the near future, along with gradual erosion of the whole "innocent until proven guilty" stuff that has no place in a healthy fascism
I mean, yeah, fascism/conservativism/the right has been on a huge rise. You can always expect violence to follow in their footsteps.
I thought the only ones left on death row were 3 white nationalist terrorists? Didn't Biden parden the rest?
The only federal death rowers are those three. States do their own thing.
Says right at the top of the article "This article is more than 3 months old" (their bold, not mine)