Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law Tuesday a bill allowing executions by nitrogen gas and electrocution, opening the door for Louisiana to revive capital punishment 14 years after it last

Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law Tuesday a bill allowing executions by nitrogen gas and electrocution, opening the door for Louisiana to revive capital punishment 14 years after it last used its death chamber.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
    191·
    10 months ago

    Death penalties cost more in lawyers and appeals than regular incarceration does.

        • harderian729@lemmy.world
          118·
          10 months ago

          Calm down. I already said “punishing criminals does not need to be as expensive as it is.”

          It’s possible to do it for cheaper, even if we choose not to. You really should take a break.

          • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
            111·
            10 months ago

            This bears repeating. It’s only cheaper if you’re a fascist unconcerned with due process. So you should really just stop lying or take your Nazi rhetoric elsewhere.

            • harderian729@lemmy.world
              114·
              10 months ago

              Not really. It can be cheaper while maintaining due process.

              I don’t think you’re capable of understanding this, though.

                • harderian729@lemmy.world
                  18·
                  10 months ago

                  Mitigate the amount of appeals convicts are allowed to have so they can’t abuse the system for decades hoping to find a loophole.

                  Criminals appealing the death penalty don’t typically do so because they’re innocent, although I don’t expect you to understand or acknowledge this.

                  • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
                    5·
                    10 months ago

                    How many appeals do they get currently? How many should they get? You said they typically don’t appeal because they are innocent, so what about the atypical cases where they are innocent?

          • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
            51·
            10 months ago

            It is not possible to do it cheaper without murdering even more innocent people. That should be unacceptable for anyone with halfway decent morals.

              • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
                71·
                10 months ago

                Since the 70s, 1584 people have been executed, of which at least 197 have later been exonerated. So a cool 10%. How high would you like it to go to save money?

                • harderian729@lemmy.world
                  110·
                  10 months ago

                  Thanks for those statistics.

                  It’d be better if those people died in prison. We shouldn’t remove imprisonment just because some people are going to be wrongfully-convicted.