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Louisiana is trying to get rid of the death penalty

Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:15 pm
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164143 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:15 pm
What is this shite
Posted by BlackHelicopterPilot
Top secret lab
Member since Feb 2004
52833 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:17 pm to
There have been three (3) executions in LA since 2000 (inclusive)


It is not like you are going to be missing out on all that much fun.
Posted by maine82
Member since Aug 2011
3320 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:17 pm to
It won't happen.

However, the death penalty is practically all but dead in Louisiana because parish governments don't want to pay the fees to move convicts sentenced in their parishes through the process. It's been over 8 year since we last imposed it.
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23722 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:18 pm to
Not a working penalty anyway, and each death penalty verdict costs us all a huge amount of money. Not worth it.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67101 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:18 pm to
The death penalty is incredibly expensive to carry out due to the appeals process and the fact that it basically requires an entirely duplicitous set of sentencing trials in order to get a death sentence and defeat all of those appeals. It takes like 30 years to put someone to death. It would be a lot cheaper to just skip that process and give them life without parole.

There's also a major national shortage of lethal injection drugs.

I think they should be reforming the appeals and sentencing process to cut down the cost rather than getting rid of the penalty.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164143 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:20 pm to
The chair is still operational. It’s a shame Louisiana let its Cajun and Catholic cultures turn the state into a bunch of pussies.
This post was edited on 4/10/18 at 2:20 pm
Posted by ILeaveAtHalftime
Member since Sep 2013
2889 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:20 pm to
It’s way more expensive than the alternative. It’s insanely inefficient, and as others have said, it’s practically dead anyways.

Time to just lock them up after an initial trial and forego the decades of appellate costs.
Posted by roadGator
Member since Feb 2009
140541 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:20 pm to
But not for unborn tiny humans, right?

Frick them still.
Posted by Lutcher Lad
South of the Mason-Dixon Line
Member since Sep 2009
5761 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:22 pm to
It's all a moot point...they haven't put anyone to death in years. Wish they would though. Time to instill an eye for an eye. Why keep these murdering sons of bitches alive breathing good air?
This post was edited on 4/11/18 at 9:10 am
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
126962 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:23 pm to
quote:

The chair is still operational.
Louisiana uses lethal injection now not the electric chair.
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
126962 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:24 pm to
quote:

It's all a mute point..
So you don't want to talk about it???
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164143 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:28 pm to
No shite. A few states use the chair as a secondary option so LA could get one and fire it back up since the drug supply is a problem.
Posted by BlackHelicopterPilot
Top secret lab
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52833 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:28 pm to
quote:

It's all a mute point..


quote:

So you don't want to talk about it???



Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20896 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:30 pm to
I always find it interesting that so many "small govt conservatives" who trust the govt extremely little and assume it full of paid idiots, suddenly has full faith that this same govt will always execute only the guilty.

Its like some believe the state govt is so terrible that it must be right all the time.
This post was edited on 4/10/18 at 2:33 pm
Posted by ShortyRob
Member since Oct 2008
82116 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:31 pm to
I support removal of the death penalty.

I frankly don't see how one can be conservative and for it.
Posted by pwejr88
Red Stick
Member since Apr 2007
36185 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:34 pm to
quote:

forego the decades of appellate costs.




And their ride in jail is free?
Posted by pwejr88
Red Stick
Member since Apr 2007
36185 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:34 pm to
quote:

I think they should be reforming the appeals and sentencing process to cut down the cost rather than getting rid of the penalty.



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Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20896 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:36 pm to
quote:

And their ride in jail is free?


I think his point is that the cost of all that lawyering/litigation plus thirty years imprisonment is more expensive than letting them rot in prison.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20896 posts
Posted on 4/10/18 at 2:37 pm to
quote:

think they should be reforming the appeals and sentencing process to cut down the cost rather than getting rid of the penalty.


Absolutely. We should make it easier to kill any citizens the state dictates. Why even have a trial?
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