Why you mad tho? The reasons why are obvious. If you've blatantly proven beyond any doubt that you cannot be rehabilitated and safely integrated back into society then there's no reason not just just kill you. That's more humane than locking someone up for the rest of their life on the tax payers dime honestly. Iirc in California for example it costs 60k a year per prisoner and 150k per year for prisoners on death row. I'll bring up a news story from a few years back, remember that dude Ariel Castro who abducted 3 girls and kept them prisoner in his home and raped them for over a decade? There was no reason to keep that man alive, but luckily he took care of that problem himself. The propose of prison should rehabilitation and turning people into contributing members of society and after you commit certain abhorrent crimes, you prove that you're not capable of that and not worth the air you breathe, the water you drink, the food you eat, and the space you occupy. It would be stupid NOT to just kill them.
There's no real fast track for the process of convicting someone incontrovertibly of a serious crime like that. You must give everyone the same access to the right to a lawyer, right to trial, right to appeal, etc.
This entire process costs money. It costs even more money to take it to the level of surety where you can put them on death row, in light of the fact that historically no small amount of people have been wrongfully convicted.
It's a nice thought that we can just instantly know beyond a shadow of a doubt that someone is guilty of a terrible crime with no chance of redemption, but there's no simple way to expedite that process.
But in certain cases we do though. Like the case I mentioned for example where someone rescued 3 women being held captive in a man's home who had been holding them captive and raping them for a decade. I know that's not common, and I'm not saying to throw the death penalty around for everything, but there are occasionally black and white cases such as that one and for @organicbamf to say it's never okay is just ignorant. What reason is there to sentence someone to life+ _____ years or to 1000 years like they did with ^ dude when they know without a doubt that he is guilty of the heinous crimes he's accused of and that a man like that can never be allowed back into society. ---
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