Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

  • arin@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    10 months ago

    Costs money to pay for his living, food, room, guards, water, sewer plumbing, air, heat, AC

    • drislands@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      It costs a hell of a lot more to execute someone, believe it or not.

      Edit: damn, y’all are some bloodthirsty motherfuckers.

      • arin@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        10 months ago

        Only time it costs more is when the cops loses a lawsuit for unloading their clips on an innocent black person

      • Pat_Riot
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        7
        ·
        10 months ago

        Only because the methods employed are stupidly wasteful and overcomplicated. The process needs to be overhauled in a logical and pragmatic way. The problem with current means of execution is that feelings were brought into the equation in the first place.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        12
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        Then allow executions within days with cheaper, more humane methods like bullets. The only reason it’s more expensive is because of you, and it should not be.

        • HighElfMage@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          7
          ·
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          Speeding up executions means more innocent people will be wrongfully executed. How many innocent people are you willing to kill to make sure this this asshole fries?

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            arrow-down
            12
            ·
            10 months ago

            Oh the fuck well, that’s the price you pay for living in a society. All societies require their sacrificial lambs in order to prop themselves up because no legal system is perfect nor capable of being so, but we still have to put the well-being of our community above those who threaten or wrong it whether we make mistakes or not. And we give the state the benefit of the doubt in such circumstances because we accept that it’s the only way a community can be functional and work without even WORSE sacrifices.

            You’re gonna tell me that we can’t give life back to those we take it from knowing that’s just as true with people wrongfully convicted and thrown in prison for life – the people who you sentence to be raped, tortured, enslaved, and STILL murdered anyway because your selfish, entitled ass thinks your opinions are better than others. And you absolve yourself of responsibility for the extreme cruelty and suffering you cause by telling yourself, “Well at least they’re alive,” which is a cop-out.

            It’s far more humane to execute someone quickly after a trial because it minimizes the convicted’s suffering, it’s far better for the safety of the community because you are getting rid of a known offender even if the odds they’re actually guilty aren’t 100% perfect, it’s much more morally conscionable than expecting the community and victims to live in fear of offenders and ultimately is the better, more moral way.

            But you don’t understand that because you’re not emphasizing with anyone else, you only care about how you feel about death personally and that is 100% a you problem.

            • HighElfMage@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              10 months ago

              How is executing someone keeping us safer from them than just throwing them in prison? Prison escapes, especially of dangerous, death row level offenders are exceedingly rare, at least in the US. People will point to deterrence, but no scientific studies have been able to demonstrate any significant deterrence effect of capital punishment. You’re just killing people out of anger.

              I get it, many of these offenders are abhorrent. I won’t lose any sleep over the supermarket shooter getting his. But the death penalty should be abolished.

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                10 months ago

                Because that person is dead which 100% guarantees they will never harm someone again. Whether it deters other people or not is irrelevant. We’re talking about him, this guy, and him alone.

                • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  4
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  10 months ago

                  So it’s worth the false positive rate? Sacrificing one innocent out of every 20 executions is a good thing?

            • ???@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              10 months ago

              If we need to sacrifice human beings, would you like to volunteer? -.-

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                10 months ago

                I already have to no matter what I do, so I would rather be humanely executed with a bullet a few days after being wrongfully convicted for something than to be locked in a cage. No matter how gilded that cage is, it would still be a cage, and still a lifetime of unnecessary suffering that is inherently inhumane and cruel as opposed to simple death for which afterwards there IS no suffering, because I’ll be fucking dead.

                This is why you anti-death penalty ideologues are completely fucking unempathetic, irrational and completely lack self-awareness. You DON’T actually care about what’s moral, simply dominating the conversation and being the ones to dictate to everyone else so you can feel like you’re in control, and who cares about the deaths you personally cause or the millions of lives you ruin every day with your bullshit?

                Or the genocide you’re enabling?

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                5
                arrow-down
                8
                ·
                10 months ago

                Oh look at that, it’s the political ideologue retreating because he is being wrong and irrational about this and he knows it.

                Your ideology is inhumane, unempathetic, destructive and UNSPEAKABLY cruel and you walk this earth with innocent blood on your hands. Blood you vehemently deny is there because morality for you isn’t about what’s best for other people, it’s about dominating other people. Fuck off.

                • adrian783@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  6
                  arrow-down
                  5
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  10 months ago

                  nonono, you see, YOUR ideology is inhumane, unempathetic, destructive and UNSPEAKABLY cruel and you walk this earth with innocent blood on your hands. (I mean you’re literally ok with killing Innocents). Blood you vehemently deny is there because morality for you isn’t about what’s best for other people, it’s about dominating other people. Fuck off.

                  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    5
                    arrow-down
                    6
                    ·
                    10 months ago

                    Lol the classic “no u” defense, championed by immature troglodytes the world over. Keep telling us you don’t know what you’re talking about. Keep telling us you refuse to emphasize with other people or to listen to the other side while you aggressively bully other people into thinking you’re more empathetic, loving and just simply because of your shitty opinions. Keep showing us why opposing the death penalty is morally reprehensible and why people like you are disgusting and abhorrent.

        • maryjayjay@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          You sound like a member of a Jim Crow era lynch mob. Screw due process, he just looks guilty. Yeehaw!

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            10 months ago

            And you know you don’t have a rational leg to stand on, so when called out on your shit, you do what any self-righteous, self-involved dipshit does: fall back to tired old stereotypes and meaningless insults.

            Why in the world would you think acting that way will convince anyone of anything? Convince me to change my mind?