08-04-2023, 06:39 PM
DeusxMac wrote:
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...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.
Much (most?) of those issues are self-fulfilling.
"...it cost the Texas Department of Criminal Justice $83.55 for the drugs used to carry out an execution -- sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
Then last March [2011] the state was forced to replace sodium thiopental with pentobarbital after the U.S. supplier of the former drug halted distribution amid international protests.
Switching to pentobarbital, also known as Nembutal, raised the cost of drugs for each execution to $1,286.86."
"Some of the reasons for the high cost of the death penalty are the longer trials and appeals required when a person’s life is on the line, the need for more lawyers and experts on both sides of the case"
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
Acquiring the drugs for lethal injection is not the recent problem in Alabama.
The more broad point is that the “reasons” for the death penalty being more costly than incarceration are the impediments created by those opposing it. They call out the financial costs to support their cause, but those costs are of their own making; it is an applied tactic.
The problems in Alabama have nothing to do with cost.
I really do not care about the "cost" of either option. There is a higher cost to American society in continuing to engage in this barbaric, racist practice. There is a reason that most states still killing people are the former slave dates.
I also think it's a ridiculous assertion that death penalty opponents try to prevent executions to run up the cost?
We do all we can to prevent executions because we believe this is wrong.