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[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (36 children)

As much as I dislike crypto, this is not a crypto fail story, even though the article paints it like that a few times (or at least the tone implies).

No one should have their finger servered because of other people's greediness.

These are the occasions I wish death penalty was a thing, especially for those cases where the idiots have been caught in the act - there are better things to do with my tax money than making sure they have a place to live in and some nice good meals to go with it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

As a side note. A death penalty case actually costs more than a life sentence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

In the US where they decided to make the punitive system for-profit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

No. It's more that they have higher costs and it averages out around 20 years. So it's close to the average length of a life sentence except if they're young. It's only real cheap if you have a kangaroo court and just shoot people.

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