People twenty years ago thought their advances meant that people wouldn't be wrongly executed. And yet they still were. And no doubt people will still be executed.
DNA evidence isn't always as black and white as you'd think. Sometimes someone can have reason for their DNA to be at the scene without being guilty.
Pretty sure that fact refers to the US. Remember how long prisoners spend on death row anyway, and then add in all the legal costs. It's not hard to believe it costs more to execute someone.
It's probably less likely to apply to Saudi Arabia or some other primitive country where justice is even worse than the States.
Prison industry has mostly been privatized in the United States, so I am not sure how true the statement is.
The Vera Institute of Justice released a study in 2012 that found the aggregate cost of prisons in 2010 in the 40 states that participated was $39 billion.
The annual average taxpayer cost in these states was $31,286 per inmate.
New York State was the most expensive, with an average cost of $60,000 per prison inmate.
Pretty sure that fact refers to the US. Remember how long prisoners spend on death row anyway, and then add in all the legal costs. It's not hard to believe it costs more to execute someone.
It's probably less likely to apply to Saudi Arabia or some other primitive country where justice is even worse than the States.
Prison industry has mostly been privatized in the United States, so I am not sure how true the statement is.
The Vera Institute of Justice released a study in 2012 that found the aggregate cost of prisons in 2010 in the 40 states that participated was $39 billion.
The annual average taxpayer cost in these states was $31,286 per inmate.
New York State was the most expensive, with an average cost of $60,000 per prison inmate.
www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=42 Granted the website itself is an anti-death penalty one, but it sources some data from seemingly less biased sources.
Never, far too many shades of grey and you can get the decision wrong and murder someone incorrectly far too easily.
I know where you are coming from, in cases like the one where that Michael Adebolajo chopped that Lee Rigby's lid off in broad day light in the middle of the street and was shouting on about Jihad with blood all over his hands and admitted it and video footage, witnesses etc there is no case for error and you could argue it therefore has a case, however where do you draw the line?
Life will throw up cases where evidence becomes questionable and that is where errors can be made, life ain't black and white, plus it's fucking barbaric, two wrongs don't make a right I was always told.
So by your theory we should kill all the police involved in Hillsborough, eh, eddie? What's your preferred method? Pile them into a football ground and crush them?
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