politics

Death sentences are expensive because of all the automatic appeals and other legal shit that happens. The means of execution is a pittance compared to legal and court fees.

You're all over the place. Your first post was complaining about money being spent on a housing a prisoner for life and death would be cheaper. Now you're arguing that every investigation (presumably that results in jail time) should have the same level of rigor (and high cost) as death penalty cases.

So which is it? Are you willing to spend whatever is necessary to seek justice while also allowing for every avenue for the innocent or are you arguing for the lowest cost law enforcement penalty to save tax dollars?

Not at all, but it's cute that you tried to project that shit opinion onto me. I think murderers, rapists, and pedophiles are a waste of air and resources and need to be put down like a rabid dog. I don't agree with putting your trust into a government authority to make that call. I understand that not every case is going to be open/shut and that human error exists and people like to lie about things. I don't have an answer for a perfect solution to remove those types of people from society. Some people can't be rehabilitated and the loss needs to be cut before it impacts anyone else. Our current system is fucked entirely. Cops are fucked, politicians are fucked, and now we have people advocating for rapists, murders, and pedophiles as if they're capable of being human. I'm not calling for the death penalty for stealing or public disturbance. I'm specifically saying for those three things, murder, rape, and the abuse of children, should be punishable by death. You seem to disagree with that and would prefer that those types of people continue living and breathing our air. What a shame.

The problem, as has become crystal clear over the past few decades is that our police force demonstrably cannot be trusted to solve crimes correctly.

In fact, they will often knowingly lie to gain a conviction of an innocent person.

When that is clearly, obviously happening and being documented, applying the death penalty isn't moral - the state is failing in its responsibility.

Problem is, we can't currently trust the people that are making those decisions. Cops, courts, and politicians have proven time and time again that they can't be trusted. The other thing I'd like to touch on, why would it need to be humane? It's a punishment, a deterrent. It should be reserved for the worst crimes imaginable, and it should be scary and awful to go through. Let them starve, deprive them of oxygen, drown them, light them on fire, let the victims/survivors go at the perpetrator with a clawed hammer. Punishments are meant to be awful, it's to keep people from doing it in the first place.