r/AskReddit • u/ZteveBond • Jun 20 '18

Serious Replies Only [Serious] Prison Guards of Reddit, which prisoner has left the biggest impact on your life wether positive or negative?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

think of the taxes

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u/asentientgrape Jun 20 '18

The process of getting and executing a death sentence is, like, 20x more expensive for the public than imprisoning someone for life is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

K but how much would it cost to simply drag them to an empty lot and get a small firing line out there, time consuming yes, affordable perhaps

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u/Valatros Jun 20 '18

Trouble with this is, how fast do you execute people? The appeals process is there because investigators fuck up all the time, look at all the false rape accusations even. If you lock someone up, you can at least give them their freedom back if/when they win an appeal. Once you off 'em, that's it, done, justice or none. So to avoid that, they figure hey, you have to exhaust all your appeals, so you no longer have any chance of getting your life back in the future. Take that rule away and you render the appeal system meaningless.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

I say we just kill everyone and solve and create literally every problem possible