They are giving Luigi the death penalty

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1 hour ago, Elliott said:

Death penalty costs 7x more than imprisoning someone for life.

Welcome to yet another example to illustrate the control and capture of the state by money. This is the perverse dynamic at play in the US - that money controls the state rather than the other way round.  Why does it cost so much? Because liberal values are weaponized, and justice is commodified and milked by a extensive legal procedure enriching lawyers, courts, and the prison/legal-industrial complex.

Their are notorious cases where there is no moral ambiguity as to what the fate of the criminal should be. Serial killers, mass shooters etc. The entire point of the death penalty is to remove the irredeemable - those who have committed acts so heinous that there is zero moral ambiguity about their fate. And yet, the modern legal system creates artificial complexity where there should be none.

Ted Bundy dragged his case for a decade with countless legal moves. Legal moves that are in place due to liberal values - the hyper-focus on due process, endless appeals, and excessive legal protections that prioritize the criminal over the victim. This is the ideological obstruction of justice despite ample evidence of guilt, fed upon by capitalist greed. Liberal legal values can create inefficiencies that turn clear cut cases into million dollar spectacles.