• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    You say that, but when the federal government does an execution it ends up costing something like $2M.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The US has 612 billionaires so those prices work out to about the same.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      IIRC a lot of that is the cost of the legal system and because they insist on using absolutely barbarous and ineffective methods. The guillotine is as fool-proof as it gets, and there will be no lengthy trials for billionaires.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      All the prison contractors need to get their slice of the blood pie before anything can move forward

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      600 billionaire for 1.2 billion dollars is a decent deal, since their imaginary capital (stocks, etc.) would mostly devalue but they do still have material holdings that can be taken.