A top donor to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund mentioned President Donald Trump's executive order on the death penalty.
  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 days ago

    I only wanted to point out the hypocrisy, but you make a good point:

    Where capital punishment exists, people who commit crimes are more likely to escalate to more heinous acts in order to evade capture

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      17·
      2 days ago

      I forgot:

      • Innocent people get executed a lot.

      And this indirect effect, even when the person sentenced to death is undeniably guilty:

      • Opportunity cost. The legal process of appeals that goes on before a convicted person is actually executed is more costly than life imprisonment. The money spent on that process is not spent on constructive public good.