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Re:Working on databases from prison by cycomanic on Monday June 16, 2025 @03:14PM (#44292547)
And you take personal responsibility if someone innocent is convicted? Once you have executed someone there is no coming back. Or are you saying you're OK with some innocents being killed so you can save some money (taxes)?
Re:Working on databases from prison by charcircuit on Monday June 16, 2025 @03:40PM (#44292738)
>Once you have executed someone there is no coming back.

Once you've taken 10 years of someone's life there is no giving that back either. As technology progresses the cost of recording evidence will go down which will help convict and prove the innocence of people.

Re:Working on databases from prison by aspenmayer on Monday June 16, 2025 @06:14PM (#44293888)
> As technology progresses the cost of recording evidence will go down which will help convict and prove the innocence of people.

Minority Report is a counterfactual to this claim. The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. Technology is a tool to extend one’s grasp to meet one’s reach, and vice versa, and is a tool that serves power. Those with power are best able to bend tools to their ends, just or unjust.

> It is the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness. In doing so, they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France

Re:Working on databases from prison by ponector on Monday June 16, 2025 @04:28PM (#44293105)
It takes 5-25 years is the USA to execute a person. Someone can argue what is worse: to live 20 more years in prison or to be executed.