Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law Tuesday a bill allowing executions by nitrogen gas and electrocution, opening the door for Louisiana to revive capital punishment 14 years after it last

Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law Tuesday a bill allowing executions by nitrogen gas and electrocution, opening the door for Louisiana to revive capital punishment 14 years after it last used its death chamber.

  • harderian729@lemmy.world
    118·
    4 months ago

    Calm down. I already said “punishing criminals does not need to be as expensive as it is.”

    It’s possible to do it for cheaper, even if we choose not to. You really should take a break.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
      111·
      4 months ago

      This bears repeating. It’s only cheaper if you’re a fascist unconcerned with due process. So you should really just stop lying or take your Nazi rhetoric elsewhere.

      • harderian729@lemmy.world
        114·
        4 months ago

        Not really. It can be cheaper while maintaining due process.

        I don’t think you’re capable of understanding this, though.

          • harderian729@lemmy.world
            18·
            4 months ago

            Mitigate the amount of appeals convicts are allowed to have so they can’t abuse the system for decades hoping to find a loophole.

            Criminals appealing the death penalty don’t typically do so because they’re innocent, although I don’t expect you to understand or acknowledge this.

            • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
              5·
              4 months ago

              How many appeals do they get currently? How many should they get? You said they typically don’t appeal because they are innocent, so what about the atypical cases where they are innocent?

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      51·
      4 months ago

      It is not possible to do it cheaper without murdering even more innocent people. That should be unacceptable for anyone with halfway decent morals.

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
          71·
          4 months ago

          Since the 70s, 1584 people have been executed, of which at least 197 have later been exonerated. So a cool 10%. How high would you like it to go to save money?

          • harderian729@lemmy.world
            110·
            4 months ago

            Thanks for those statistics.

            It’d be better if those people died in prison. We shouldn’t remove imprisonment just because some people are going to be wrongfully-convicted.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿English
      31·
      4 months ago

      Don’t tell me what to do, dickcheese. Take the L and go be wrong.