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Re:Texas death row inmate at mercy of Supreme Court – and ju... by dfadsadsf on Sunday September 24, 2023 @07:45PM (#37638238)
Recidivism rate is high so People who commit murded will likely commit other crimes if released so removing them from society is a good thing. Keeping them in jail forever is a waste of resources so execution is right approach. The one thing is that process should not take 20 years and all appeals should run out in a year or two at most so justice is reasonably swift.

We should not torture them on purpose but besides that I do not particularly care if they suffer or not during execution.

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Re:Texas death row inmate at mercy of Supreme Court – and ju... by adfgiionio on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:24PM (#37639377)
Execution is vastly more expensive than keeping people locked up. This is well documented. Shortening the appeals process enough to make it cheaper than prison would be radically authoritarian and would result in even more innocent people being executed.
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