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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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It's alright to put a person in jail for 90 consecutive life terms and never look back. Feel good about ourselves because if we got it wrong, we "could" look into it.
Death penalty should be used sparingly
Wife poisons her husband? No because there's never going to be 100% proof
Kid shoots up a school? Yes because you know it was them 100%
Yeah, I'm not trying to argue either
The perfect world wouldn't need a death penalty, yet we don't live in a perfect world.
To me, spending ~50k a year to keep a person behind bars is not worth it.
An 18 year old school shooter has ~60 years behind bars.
That's 3 million dollars
Do you know how many lives you can save or improve for 3 million dollars?
Thats if the cost of incarnation doesn't increase in 60 years...
Thats not counting all the interest you could earn from investing the money for 60 years...
It's millions of dollars
That school shooter is 100% guilty and will never, hopefully, get out of prison.
It's inhumane to just keep them locked in a box for 60 years
But if you want to pay millions to a private prison because "The school shooter might be innocent". Even with videos, eye witnesses, and cops arresting them with a gun.
Then okay. Doesn't make sense to me.