Warehousing a person for decades as just a vessel for the life you intend to eventually take is competitive with the brutality of any torture I’ve ever heard of.
Williams had been sentenced to death for killing a construction worker in Philadelphia in 1988. Williams, who is Black, had said he wanted to kill a white person because a white person had put him in jail in a robbery case, the Associated Press reported.
What a piece of shit.
I wouldn’t believe a summary from the Inquirer or any capitalist media on the prison state. They routinely recycle copaganda without remorse.
But, even if dude did commit this crime, this country supposedly (lol) forbids cruel and unusual punishment. This case unmasks the reality and underlying fascism behind locking millions of people in cages.
The state is truly a piece of shit.
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The death penalty is significantly more expensive than life in prison actually.
A preliminary study by South Dakotans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, examining first-degree murder cases since 1985 that have resulted in a death sentence or life in prison, found that on average, legal costs in death penalty cases exceeded those in the other cases by $353,105.[24]
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There is no fix. You can’t make it cheaper… it’s as expensive as it is because you have to be certain without a shadow of a doubt, which means many legal cases and appeals and whatnot. Unfortunately even after all of that, 200 people have still been sentenced to death and later exonerated. Many innocent people were executed before being posthumously exonerated… https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/innocence
