President Donald Trump is calling for federal prosecutors to push for the death penalty in capital cases involving undocumented people. The move was one of dozens of executive orders the president signed on day one of his second term.
President Donald Trump is calling for federal prosecutors to push for the death penalty in capital cases involving undocumented people. The move was one of dozens of executive orders the president signed on day one of his second term.
It’s not cheaper to execute people, either. Even if convicted, they still get their appeals, which costs court and lawyer time and money, plus the imprisonment. Even if they exhaust their appeals, they sit on death row until the state actually manages to execute them, which is getting more difficult due to lack of executioners and method of execution materials (e.g. the lethal injection items).
It’s not cheaper to execute people with our current legal framework. After we get 30,000 people in Guantanamo bay and illegal immigration has become a crime punishable by death, things could change.
They only started killing them in the 40s because they ran out of room. It’s the logical, horrific conclusion to permanent detention of millions of people.
I assume you mean they’ll be simply shot in the street?
Ha, due process? Unlikely
it’s actually quite a bit more expensive to execute someone than to house them for life.
source: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/which-is-cheaper-execution-or-life-in-prison-without-parole-31614
Of course, all of those costs are related to giving people fair trials and weighing previous evidence and considering that previous trials might have gotten things wrong.
In Trump’s America, you’re guilty until proven innocent, so none of that applies.
In Trump’s America you’ll be guilty if he says so until executed. There will be no opportunity to prove innocence.
Sure there will. Post-execution. At which point, the excuses begin.
sad but almost certainly going to be true soon enough :/