(August 18, 2022 at 5:24 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Whatever your moral view of executions may be, and whatever your metaethical view of morality may be...they're more expensive, not less, than just imprisoning someone. We'd save those millions you think might be useful in other places, were we to stop killing killers.In that case, I'd support a life sentence. You can build a small room for a couple thousand dollars, and heavy-link chains aren't all that expensive either.
Seriously, though, execution isn't expensive-- execution with extensive failsafes, expensive lawyers, etc. etc. is mightily expensive.
But like I said before, mistakes happen all the time that cause people their lives-- medical, financial, etc. We'll bomb a wedding of brown people on a whim, just because somebody knew somebody who heard that Bad Guy 237 was likely to attend. "Ooops, didn't mean to blow up all those women and children" is good enough for us, apparently, because I don't see outraged protests every time it happens. And yet some guy spends years of his life making schoolgirl tartar, and suddenly we're super-concerned that we get this one right.
