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Why is the Death Penalty still allowed if it is really expensive and unprofitable? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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If the Death Penalty doesn't have a profit motive, and is so obviously barbaric, why do political groups and people in America still rally behind it? Surely there's more to it than most Americans just being blood thirsty monsters, right?

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Sadism. It's just sadism. A lot of people in the US enjoy seeing others being hurt and killed. They think that people accused of death penalty crimes are acceptable victims so they can fully indulge their blood lust. The number of cases where the family of the victim of the murder pleads with the prosecutors not to seek the death penalty and then the accused is sent to death row is really illustrative. It has nothing to do with justice for families or anything else, it's just the state flexing it's power to kill and the bloodthirsty mob indulging their love of violence and misery.