I am all for torture + death penalty in cases where there is zero grey area.
The older I get, the more I feel this way. The other day, some guy in my city fucking stabbed a baby to death and almost killed his other kid too.
Why waste money keeping this scum alive, especially when the max sentence he will get is probably between 15 and 20 years. The guy is 34 years old, he will be out by the time heās 50.
Weāve got another guy in maximum security who gunned down 50 innocent people. Again, wasting millions looking after this cunt when we could pay $20 for a couple of bullets and be done with it.
I think every warm blooded human shares that same urge. Thatās why public executions are still a thing in some countries.
The problem is state sponsored executions are easily and often directed at innocent people or those society may deem to be social deviants or maybe political dissidents.
I donāt know how it is elsewhere but the death penalty in the United States is far more expensive than housing someone for life (from what Iāve read).
How is it more expensive? Iām assuming that figure includes the cost of having them on death row?
Donāt quote me but yes, from what Iāve read the cost of housing someone for life, who would otherwise be on death row awaiting execution is cheaper.
I had to wright a paper about this in college and what I found is that the cost of appeals and court proceedings are very expensive. The actual material, facilities and even the chemical cocktail they use in lethal injections are also expensive.
Not to mention the people who press the button are rare therefore they command a high premium for their services.
As KITN said, itās essentially all the legal fees that happen post conviction.
What type of legal fees specifically?
All I know is that the legal process doesnāt stop once a death penalty sentence is attained. Itās merely the start. Itāll be tied up in the courts, sometimes for decades.
Good call if he gives a shit about his party and how they do at the next election, cos he is absolutely cooked.
Itās what Biden should have done long before he was easentially pushed into doing so.
Oh no, not Justinder
Trudeauās legacy is one of failure in almost every respect.
Canada was almost certainly in better shape when he entered office, heās leaving a massive mess which will facilitate a landmark conservative win.
The centre left position needs more effective leaders.
Anecdotal, but small portion of my Jamaican family lives in Canada, came to Jamaica around the same time I did (last year) and was very negative about Trudeau and Canada. Struck out to me given I last saw them was 2016 and was quite positive about the country which is around when Trudeau entered office.
Pretty much listed the bingo card of complaints, housing prices, immigrations, high taxes, crime. (They live in Toronto).
I never looked into the specifics (Didnāt care enough in all honesty, I was enjoying my holiday) but thereās been a level of mismanagement clearly.
Iāll pass away before I see that happen.
Trudeauās biggest achievement was not getting cancelled for doing black face
Howās this for skewed selective morality?
One of the blokes said to be the perpetrator of this act is Steve Samson, who murdered Sarah Mayhew in 2024, chopped her up and scattered her remains across Croydon.
He was previously convicted of murder in 1999, he stabbed a taxi driver in the neck and nicked Ā£25 off him.
What a hero, eh?
So why do we not want an inquiry into grooming rape gangs?
https://twitter.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1877077977344688208?s=46
Didnt they just have one that took 7 years to do an torys didnt follow any off the recommendations.
The narrative I saw was the conservatives also didnāt launch an enquiry.
The fires happening in LA are nuts didnāt know it was happening until this morning
Yeah but that doesnāt make for a nice enough headline and doesnāt fit the Reform and Tory narrative that Labour are dangerous and donāt want to protect British children.
Itās bizarre that people seem to be completely ignoring the 7 years spent already looking into it.