(August 5, 2022 at 11:03 am)Angrboda Wrote: The difference is that a life sentence represents reversible error, whereas execution involves irreversible error. Decisions regarding irreversible error demand more resources, due to the irreversibility of getting it wrong.No doubt. Execution COULD reduce crime and save money. It could (and at some point would) also allow an irreversible error-- i.e. an innocent man would be put to death.
With a recidivism rate of about 5/6 in the US, that's a LOT of additional rapes and murders that could have been avoided if eggregious offenders were executed rather than let out on parole after 20 years with no prospects and no meaningful job / financial aid.
People cry about executions of murderers. There's a lot of irony in that.
