Mcface said:
I wish it would.
A single bullet to the dome = about 25 cents.
Years and Years of keeping a convicted child rapist or murder = $232.7 million per year. (in ONE state!)
I think its pretty obvious.
Back when they thought like this they would just take you out of the court room and the next day they would hang you. They did it for lots of crimes, such as stealing one horse, cause they all believed that it was deterrent. People still stole horses, raped and murdered and the vast majority of people got away with it.... while a good deal of people who where 'just the wrong colour' where lynched instead.
Now even when we became more 'civilised' there where hundreds of people on death row for crimes they had not committed. The invention of DNA evidence would free so many people it isn't funny, clearly showing a flaw in the system itself.
So in efforts to not murder innocent people mandatory appeals where put in place. Simply put the courts could not refuse to listen to an appeal of a person who has been convicted of murder... there are easily half a dozen applicant courts. Now even the guilty know very well if they file all appeals it can take DECADES to actually be punished. Most will die of old age before they are executed and clearly use this to their advantage.
Now who do you think pays for all the applicant courts and of course keeping the person imprisoned waiting for the re-trails?
Yet we can't change the system, we have proven it works too well to keep the majority (not all but most) of innocent people from being executed. A person could not truly say they are for justice and support a system where innocent people are likely to be killed, maybe at a higher rate, as the guilty. If you are going to support killing innocent people then how can you be sure you wont' one day be executed for a crime you didn't commit.
For that matter how can you refuse to call yourself a murderer, you are supporting murder of innocent people after all.
The cost of death penalty, thanks to this system, now FAR out reach the cost of just holding them in prison till the end of their natural lives. The execution itself isn't expensive, no, but ensuring we have someone who has even a slightly higher probability of being guilty over innocent sure is....
PS: It is very easy to be found guilty of a crime under the US justice system, this is because of juries. Juries know nothing of laws, they can't tell when people are lying and they can be swayed by emotional responses. With prosecuted being rated on 'cases won' many have no qualms about using emotional responses to get a conviction. They will put people on the stand who have a invested interest to see the defendant take the fall. They will over look inconvenient little truths that might bring reasonable doubt in hopes the defendant lawyer, often someone juggling a dozen cases and working for peanuts, will not realise.
Sadly the vast majority of murder cases are convicted on circumstantial evidence. Keep that in mind if you are for the death penalty: They are usually guilty of nothing more then being close to the crime scene at the time of the murder. Very few people confess or are caught with the bloody knife in their hands.
If you support a system that kills innocent people then you are a murderer.
