Trump pushes death penalty for undocumented people in capital cases
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The executive order urges the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty in capital cases involving undocumented suspects

President Donald Trump is calling for federal prosecutors to push for the death penalty in capital cases involving undocumented people. The move was one of dozens of executive orders the president signed on day one of his second term.

  • aeternum
    2·
    23 hours ago

    it’s actually quite a bit more expensive to execute someone than to house them for life.

    Much to the surprise of many who, logically, would assume that shortening someone’s life should be cheaper than paying for it until natural expiration, it turns out that it is actually cheaper to imprison someone for life than to execute them. In fact, it is almost 10 times cheaper! One might ask, “how can that be?”

    source: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/which-is-cheaper-execution-or-life-in-prison-without-parole-31614

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      5·
      22 hours ago

      Of course, all of those costs are related to giving people fair trials and weighing previous evidence and considering that previous trials might have gotten things wrong.

      In Trump’s America, you’re guilty until proven innocent, so none of that applies.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        In Trump’s America you’ll be guilty if he says so until executed. There will be no opportunity to prove innocence.

      • aeternum
        2·
        21 hours ago

        sad but almost certainly going to be true soon enough :/