In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Andrew Halliwell
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on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:49:22 +0100
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> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Reportedly, it is also cheaper to house them for life,
>> and of course an execution is not something one can
>> undo easily. (Not that life incarceration can be that
>> easily undone if it takes 20 years to show innocence,
>> but at least one has part of one's life left.)
>>
>
> And a big wad of compensation money meaning you can ENJOY the
> remainder of it without having to work.
No doubt...but at least he'd be alive to enjoy it. ;-) Beats
having his heirs (if any) receiving it.
And how does one properly compensate an error in judgement?
Especially after a conviction based on what turns out to be
bad evidence? It won't give him his 20 years back -- 20 years
where he could have been productive for the US economy (at
least in theory), but instead was locked up.
No system is perfect, but I can't say the death penalty works
better here.
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