What I Learned from Executing Two Men

Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by slazaro on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:18AM (#12531173)

If you're imprisoned for years and then found to be actually innocent, you can go home. That can't happen if they already chopped your head off.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by gaius on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:28AM (#12531248)

No you can't - because your home no longer exists, and I don't just mean bricks and mortar.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by geggam on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:34AM (#12531285)

You can however, make a new home.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by gaius on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:56AM (#12531468)

But the world has moved on, you have no employable skills, there is stigma still attached to having been inside... And the compensation is a paltry amount and you will be billed for your food and accomodation while inside (yes really).

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by hx87 on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:01PM (#12532417)

> And the compensation is a paltry amount

Then that's what should be fixed, isn't it? The amount should be substantial enough to a) be a significant deterrent for future screwups and b) support the former prisoner indefinitely.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by GavinMcG on Monday September 19, 2016 @10:53AM (#12531854)

Then you can kill yourself. But you undeniably have more freedom and opportunity than a dead person.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by jessaustin on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:11AM (#12532009)

...you will be billed for your food and accomodation while inside

That's a bill that probably won't get paid. What are they going to do, throw me in prison?

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by gaius on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:24AM (#12532112)

I believe it gets extracted before you get your compensation paid.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by zanny on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:57AM (#12532397)

That is so awful on so many levels. "Hey, we kept you locked up against your will, but you did eat our prison food, so we're going to take that out of the money we should be paying you for imprisoning the innocent".

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by colejohnson66 on Monday September 19, 2016 @02:31PM (#12533579)

It's awful, yes, but I can kind of see the logic behind it. Barely.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by DanBC on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:49AM (#12531413)

The emotional damage makes that hard.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by waterphone on Monday September 19, 2016 @10:53AM (#12531864)

Hard is better than impossible.

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