The death penalty could absolutely save money and be a strong deterrent if the penalty was carried out shortly after conviction instead of keeping them on death row for decades while they file endless appeals. Executing someone is cheap and obviously more cost efficient than providing them meals and housing for their entire life. All you’re doing here is making an argument for carrying out the death penalty more quickly and efficiently. And I agree. You also aren’t addressing the number one reason for the death penalty, which has nothing to do with cost or even deterrence. The primary reason is justice. Justice is giving to a person what they are due. A man who brutally murders a young girl is due the ultimate penalty. We should execute child killers because execution is the most proper and right and just response to such a crime. Keeping such a person alive and forcing society to feed and house and clothe them until their natural death is unjust, improper. He deserves to die. Even you admit this. And so he should. It’s really that simple.

@MattWalshBlog Hello X/Y, this is the police. So turns out that your husband/wife/child we had executed just a few days ago? Well new evidence says that they were completely innocent, but don't worry, we get it right next time. Also if you sue us for this, then you are a leftist POS

@LowTierTank @MattWalshBlog In this case didn’t he plead guilty?

@Koganmeister @MattWalshBlog All I am saying is that police and courts get it wrong all the time. A false conviction with imprisonment can already ruin someone's life, and in case if the death penalty irreversibely alter it. We have concrete evidence against the guy, but what about the more dubious cases?

@Koganmeister @MattWalshBlog Even if we can bring down the rate of false convictions to 1 in 100 00, the state sanctioned murder if that one peeson - just because someone got it wrong - is more than enough against the death penalty.

@Koganmeister @MattWalshBlog Also the threat of death penalty makes people more likely to confess to stuff they didn't commit or take a plea even if innocent, just to avoud a jury trial and the potential of the death penalty

@LowTierTank @MattWalshBlog Yes I hear you on all fronts but at the end of the day you have to imagine that if you’re innocent you’re not confessing to murder unless you get a plea deal which seemingly he didn’t

@Koganmeister @MattWalshBlog I never said the guy was innocent. I only explained why am I against the Death Penalty

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