Helo

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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Not sure where you’re getting your info from but even pursuing the death penalty is a massive upfront cost involving expert witnesses and whole teams of attorneys on both sides, then each mandatory appeal on state and federal level just adds to that, not to mention the extra cost for simply housing prisoners in death row in their extra secure cellblocks.

    By the time someone actually gets executed, it’ll have been decades of all this extra cost. Pike did her crime at 18, she’s 50 now. The death penalty is a ineffective waste of money.


  • Life in prison is cheaper then the death penalty by a wide margin owing to the numerous safeguards in place (e.g. mandatory appeals.) to ensure we murder folks who deserve it.

    Beyond that, the death penalty doesn’t work as a crime deterrant, murder rates in death penalty states track higher then abolitionist ones.

    Lastly, someone getting put to death gains minor celebrity during it, offering a perverse incentive to the especially vile, while life in jail is just quiet fading to nothing over time and maybe a paragraph after they die saying they’re dead. Certainly not the news cycle Pike has gotten.

    I could see the death penalty in limited circumstances like the Nuremberg trials, but for someone like Pike, Charles Manson, or whoever? Let 'em rot.