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sjfiuauqadfj t1_iughkhe wrote

Reply to comment by MyVideoConverter in Richard Branson declines invitation to debate death penalty with Shanmugam, says TV format 'turns serious debate into spectacle' by chronoistriggered

death penalty is not used in most states, and de facto not used in a few others. a minority of states actually execute people. in comparison, singapore actually executes quite a few people for a country of its size, drug trafficking also warrants a death penalty, and perhaps more damning, the vast majority, something like 90% of singaporeans approve of it. thats far from the case in the u.s., even in the states that continue to execute people

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sjfiuauqadfj t1_iugh3mu wrote

Reply to comment by busmans in Richard Branson declines invitation to debate death penalty with Shanmugam, says TV format 'turns serious debate into spectacle' by chronoistriggered

the cost associated with executions in america largely comes from not doing them in a timely manner because they legally can do a lot of appeals before they actually get executed. in a perfect world where 100% of the people who are executed absolutely did it, those appeals would not be necessary and it would be very cheap to execute a prisoner

in china its also pretty cheap to execute because they arent as lenient as we are, and they also charge the family of the person being executed for the cost of the bullets

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