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I think the ultimate punishment makes up for the lost time.
how is it the ultimate punishment? you cannot be punished in the afterlife by us.
About as much as a death sentence.
no.
you could still have decades of your life left after being wrongly imprisoned. maybe even with a sweet payoff from the govt. granted, most would rather have never been in prison at all, but thats better than being dead.
Thing is, you have to correct it before the final hour. Plenty of innocents have rotted in jail and died/were murdered.
plenty, yes. but 100% of those who were executed, are dead.
What's the difference?
see above. seems obvious. you're trying to claim "welp, we can mess up in both situations, so its a wash." it isnt.
I could see your point if the US was recklessly executing people, with no appeals, and a bullet to the back of the head within days, but they're not. They put the same due diligence into making sure they got it right, the same as they do LWOP perps.
right, but more time to prove innocence is better. once you kill someone, you cant even make an attempt at taking it back.
Oh' boo hoo. The law isn't run on feelings of the families of pieces of shit.
why shouldnt that be considered? are they guilty of a crime?
ALL that shit is on the perp. If they didn't want to cause their own family pain from their execution, they should've made better decisions in life.
thats the tail wagging the dog imo. the state should make the best decision for the most citizens possible (e.g. all the stakeholders involved, not just the offender and the victim). why should the state not be concerned about creating more ancillary victims of one type or another?