The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.
At least this way the wrongly convicted might get justice.
Better a thousand murderers rot in prison than a single innocent person murdered by the people.
I also think I’d rather have a murderer waste away every minute of their life, than take the easy way out of being dead. Killing them doesn’t seem like much of a punishment to me.
The wrongly convicted might also get beaten to death by guards or a fellow inmate while waiting for justice. They could also be raped or any other type of sexual assault while waiting for justice. It’s a tricky dick, this “justice” system. I’m not even sure it’s fair to classify someone who was “wrongfully convicted” as someone who can realistically get justice because the system can’t give them their lives back, which is an injustice.
Often, even after clearing their names, their past convictions continue to haunt them and make it impossible to move forward in their lives, even though they’ve supposedly been quashed. A lot of data services selling people’s data these days, and they’re not all current or accurate.
None of that is justice.
What’s your point? You’d rather execute them?
One criticism of life-without-parole sentencing is that prisoners facing that punishment have access to fewer legal protections than those with death sentences — and it can be nearly impossible to get a wrongful conviction overturned for those serving life. That’s why two of the 37 federal prisoners whose death sentences were commuted in December by then-President Joe Biden refused to sign paperwork accepting clemency, and instead filed emergency motions in federal court to block the action.
Read the article dude. The issue is that we’re basically murdering people, just in a different way. In a slower, more psychologically traumatizing way. These facilities ain’t fuckin great. This isn’t better they’re both fucking bad.
You just want to indict the entire legal system and any steps to improve it, but not offer any suggestions.
How do you get to the point where you’re criticizing a reduction in executions?
Dude there’s a whole set of theory called Critical Theory which deals entirely with the idea that we must always critique the status quo because things can always be better. In fact, Critical Race Theory, which became a trumped up bogeyman for the right, is a subset of Critical Theory.
Maybe if you knew someone on the inside with no hope of getting out you’d feel different and want this ended as well as the death sentence. I don’t know man, I don’t have solutions because we have a fascist steamrolling our government. Sorry I had the fucking audacity to say anything I guess I should shut my mouth to protect myself from the Fuhrer like a good little prole.
There is a difference between approaching a solution with “no, it’s not good enough” and “good, now let’s make it better”. It’s not really different if you strip feeling out of it, but in a greater context, that feeling means something.
I agree with your responses, but you’re overall using the former technique. That will rub people wrong and spark conflict.
