08-03-2023, 05:32 PM
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
AG Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions in July 2021. Appeals for death row inmates usually at least double the cost of incarceration.
He (and any other federal death row prisoners) will only die if a Republican "Right to Life" candidate gets elected and eliminates the moratorium.
Please note that at least 182 people were sentenced to death, and have been proved innocent later.
AG Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions in July 2021. Appeals for death row inmates usually at least double the cost of incarceration.
He (and any other federal death row prisoners) will only die if a Republican "Right to Life" candidate gets elected and eliminates the moratorium.
Please note that at least 182 people were sentenced to death, and have been proved innocent later.
In addition to that major problem, the death penalty is handed out in a very biased, racist manner. If you are a poor or Black defendant , you have a much higher chance of getting the death penalty. Particularly a Black person accused of killing a white person.
And you only need to look at recent problems with Alabama's lethal injection executions, or botched executions, to see why we need to end this practice and join the civilized world.