US carries out first federal execution of woman in decades

[Vrotappel]

Yup, that's why life imprisonment is usually cheaper than putting someone to death. Fair legal representation is a must if you want to execute people, even then, mistakes do happen.

Life imprisonment also comes with the same legal costs, doesn't it? Then you also have to feed and entertain the perpetrator.

 

[konfab]

Life imprisonment also comes with the same legal costs, doesn't it? Then you also have to feed and entertain the perpetrator.

No it doesn't.

https://www.thebalance.com/comparing-the-costs-of-death-penalty-vs-life-in-prison-4689874

Turns out the time of lawyers and judges is far more expensive than the time of prison wardens and prison gruel.

 

[wbot]

People called her "Womb Raider"

 

[Hellhound105]

This gender based violence need to stop.

Ou cyril just taked about it as well.

A woMAN being killed for her baby.

a woMAN being put on death row.

 

[daveza]

why no leftist is complaining about why no female was executed for the past 70 years?

Because that isn't true ?

 

[Cray]

Life imprisonment also comes with the same legal costs, doesn't it? Then you also have to feed and entertain the perpetrator.

I think legal costs are generally higher for execution, there is an automatic appeal to a higher court for any death penalty case and given the amount of time prisoners spend in death row before execution means that the costs add up. As far as I know studies have been done, and once all legal costs on both sides are added, execution is more costly.

 

[Rickster]

This crime occurred in 2004? What took so long?

Ive also wondered this, personally they should be given 30 days (after appealing) to live then executed.

No reason to wait so long.

 

[daveza]

Ive also wondered this, personally they should be given 30 days (after appealing) to live then executed.

No reason to wait so long.

There was for this guy

Pennsylvania man who wrongly spent 23 years on death row is freed

Walter Ogrod’s conviction for murder and assault of four-year-old girl in 1988 overturned

www.theguardian.com

and this guy

After 39 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment, Ricky Jackson Is Finally Free

Locked up for a murder he didn't commit, he served the longest sentence of any U.S. inmate found to be innocent

www.smithsonianmag.com

and many others.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

why no leftist is complaining about why no female was executed for the past 70 years?

they don't want to incorrectly assume her/his/its/zir's gender

I mean how many wolf-kin or attack-helicopter-kin have been executed?

 

[DreamKing]

Because that isn't true ?

what is not true?

 

[ForceFate]

what is not true?

why no leftist is complaining about why no female was executed for the past 70 years?

This^^^

 

[NeonNinja]

That's nothing. The longest I think is 40 years.
They have long appeal processes. That's why it is so expensive to executive a person. Keep them in special prison areas, etc. The mandatory appeals.

They ALWAYS take long. All of them. Hence many say it would be a waste of time and resources in this country.

 

[abzob]

Couldn't she just...you know...adopt a baby?

Not sure if you’ve ever baked buns but sometimes you just want them fresh out the oven.

Anyway with her mental faculty she probably wouldn’t have passed the adoption tests.

 

[Lupus]

So much for equality, women are more likely to get lighter sentences for crimes then men. But hey equality.

 

[bwana]

why no leftist is complaining about why no female was executed for the past 70 years?

Because she was the 17th to be executed in the US since 1976? Hers just happened to be the first female federal execution in 70 years.

 

[surface]

This gender based violence need to stop.

Ou cyril just taked about it as well.

A woMAN being killed for her baby.

a woMAN being put on death row.

What about malema & gordhan and desmond tutu ? No mention of them in your post ?

 

[RonSwanson]

Am not in favour of the death penalty generall but this one made me question that, horrific.

True, and I fully agree with it.
What's interesting for me is the focus on the deceased criminal and the execution. No-one seems to be interested in what has happened to the baby in the meantime? Foster home / Orphanage? A 17 year old teen today who needs to deal with such a past.

 

[Cray]

True, and I fully agree with it.
What's interesting for me is the focus on the deceased criminal and the execution. No-one seems to be interested in what has happened to the baby in the meantime? Foster home / Orphanage? A 17 year old teen today who needs to deal with such a past.

Can you imagine finding out that your mother died like that.... Hope the kid had a lot of support growing up.

 

[eg2505]

some crazy people out there,
at least death sentence isnt used for something less serious like shoplifting.

 

[daveza]

what is not true?

That she's the only female to be executed.

The first federal execution yes.