Death Row

[flyinfree]

what if they were to prioritize by skin color? wouldn't that fix everything?

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FF

 

[theGOOCH]

I might sign up if I could wear one of those old school black hoods and carry an ax. That would be sweet

 

[tjl]

1) Criminals cannot be rehabilitated, no matter what you try or how much progress they made. Let them out, they'll repeat the crime. It happens every time, and very few actually make up for it.

This is not true of all criminals. According to this link:



Recidivism rates are fairly high (about 2/3 are arrested within 3 years of leaving prison), but not at 100% as you claim. They have been increasing, though, which is a bad sign (although the study is only to 1994).

There is a vicious cycle here -- when resources get scarce, rehabilitation efforts do not happen, but that means more prisoners go back to crime when they get out, which means more end up back in prison, which means resources get more scarce, etc..

Regarding the death penalty -- the slow process between the penalty and the actual execution gives time for appeals and such, because most people want to be as sure as possible that they are not putting a person who is innocent of the heinous death penalty crime to death. It basically comes down to, the faster you make the execution, the more errors you get, and people tend to be less tolerant of errors in execution versus imprisonment. So it is to the point that in most states of the US, a death row prisoner is more likely to die of natural causes than be executed (i.e. equivalent to a life sentence without parole, although even more costly in this case due to the extra legal costs of the appeals).