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Posted: 28 July 2026 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
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I would have thought the Sunshine State had little left with which to surprise me, but executing an 80 year old man (for a forty year old crime)……

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And to add cents to sense...


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Florida would save about $24 million per inmate sentenced to life without parole rather than capital punishment. (source)
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For most of my adult life I was an advocate for capital punishment. It was the economic considerations that changed my mind.
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Something the general public does not think about when a murderer is given a life sentence is the prison system having to care for these inmates in their senior years.  There are inmates who were horrifying killers back in the 80s who now have diabetes, incontinence, dementia, etc.
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Posted: 28 July 2026 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!

Thinking now of James Whitmore’s character in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.

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Capital punishment and the ineluctable flaws in the criminal justice system are not easy to reconcile.

Since 1973, 202 exonerations: 109 of those were Black defendants.
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Posted: 28 July 2026 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Since 1973, 202 exonerations: 109 of those were Black defendants.

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Both those numbers are higher than I might have guessed, given the flawed system.

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