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.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 day ago

    it’s actually quite a bit more expensive to execute someone than to house them for life.

    Much to the surprise of many who, logically, would assume that shortening someone’s life should be cheaper than paying for it until natural expiration, it turns out that it is actually cheaper to imprison someone for life than to execute them. In fact, it is almost 10 times cheaper! One might ask, “how can that be?”

    source: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/which-is-cheaper-execution-or-life-in-prison-without-parole-31614

    • Flying Squid
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      51 day ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        217 hours ago

        In Trump’s America you’ll be guilty if he says so until executed. There will be no opportunity to prove innocence.

        • Flying Squid
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          217 hours ago

          Sure there will. Post-execution. At which point, the excuses begin.