Utah reinstates firing squads for executions.

Cheaper too

"Let's do this."

Now if only we could get castration as the national punishment for rapists and child molesters, we'd be all good.

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Cheaper too

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None of that thousands of dollars for an execution. That being said, I wish we would make sure the death penalty was for clear cut cases.

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That being said, I wish we would make sure the death penalty was for clear cut cases.

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I'd rather just do away with it. Pointless if you ask me, I don't see a situation where I get satisfaction or closure from someone else dying.

The death penalty has outlived its usefulness and is now only a burden left for society. As someone who has done extensive research on the topic, the best way I can sum up the death penalty is that it works great in theory, but fails in practice. The only argument for the death penalty is the irrational, emotional one that goes something like "they deserved it." All the empirical data on cost and the deterrence effect favors life without parole. This is all before you consider the 150 people that have been exonerated sense the moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976. Furthermore, considering the amount of exonerations it is all but a sure thing that innocent people have been executed, and more likely that not this will continue until the death penalty is abolished.

Gnats and Red Aints.

Charlie Daniels