We lock up 2 million people. More than Red China.
We are one of the few Industrial Democracies that still practices the barbarism of Capital Punishment.
Because she couldn't prove who fired first. I'll say that again: when she asked the CPD, "Who Fired First?" they couldn't tell her. So those guys would have hired lawyers who would have argued - rightfully - that they were defending themselves against people who wanted to murder them. As you say, they were lying on the ground because someone wanted to murder them. The fact that they broke a law to defend themselves REALLY WOULDN'T MATTER to a jury.
Who is going to pay for that? I don't want to pay for that, I think prisons are a waste of resources.
The US Locks up 2 million people. By comparison, Japan locks up 44,500.
In 2023, the total number of inmates in Japanese penal institutions amounted to approximately ******.
www.statista.com
Germany locks up 56,000.
As of June 2022, there were a total of 56,557 people in prison in Germany.
www.statista.com
The United Kingdom locks up 85,000.
en.wikipedia.org
Now, all these countries ban guns and they have less prisons... but amazingly, they have only a small fraction of our crime rate.
Imagine that.
(Oh, wait, his go to was "There was a war once and bad things happened.")