Indonesia to execute six drug offenders

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1. Enslaving convicts to work creates a perverse economic incentive to incarcerate more, for any reason.

Hence, how our privatized prison system in America coupled with our financial lobbying that is so intertwined in how our democracy/oligarchy functions has resulted in the highest per capita prisoners of any country in the world.

On a related note, an argument against the death penalty that swayed me from hesitant-"for" to an "against" is the prospect of executing an innocent. If even one innocent person is executed, that is unacceptable. You can release an innocent person from jail. You can't give them their lost time back but you can at least give them the rest of their life back. You can't bring back anyone from the grave.

My response to this is perversely mathematical. If you have a system where murderers are let out, like in the UK, then if the reoffend murder rate is higher than the innocently executed rate, then you save innocent lives by execution. Not easy to accurately get these numbers I know, and I haven't looked in detail to see how that would work out. That would be interesting.

It's fine to call me a heartless bastard, by the way. I can take it.