08-04-2023, 09:14 PM
No, I do not see those sentences as contradictory.
And I am aware of the cost argument, as I'm sure everyone on MRF is. Justice is expensive. Letting people have their rights under the Constitution is not cheap, in any sense.
"Much (most?) of those issues are self-fulfilling."
I read this as a suggestion that death penalty opponents take steps simply to increase the cost to the government of carrying out the death pemalty. I've never seen evidence of that.
The steps are intended to block scheduled executions, postpone pending ones, and to emd the practice altogether.
Cost? It costs a lot to fight the death penalty, that cost is born by volunteers and professionals who give their own time and resources. Willingly.
States continue this practice at their own risk where fiancial cost is concerned.
And I am aware of the cost argument, as I'm sure everyone on MRF is. Justice is expensive. Letting people have their rights under the Constitution is not cheap, in any sense.
"Much (most?) of those issues are self-fulfilling."
I read this as a suggestion that death penalty opponents take steps simply to increase the cost to the government of carrying out the death pemalty. I've never seen evidence of that.
The steps are intended to block scheduled executions, postpone pending ones, and to emd the practice altogether.
Cost? It costs a lot to fight the death penalty, that cost is born by volunteers and professionals who give their own time and resources. Willingly.
States continue this practice at their own risk where fiancial cost is concerned.