And it feels good. I'm supporting democrats this go-around with the Presidential election, but I'm definitely for the death penalty when it's as verifiable they committed the crime as possible. Otherwise this son of a bitch would be living on the government's tab for the next however many decades.
Posted by ignorancesucks
Ironically, your nick is IGNORANCESUCKS. Now I;m not for a second defending this scum, or anyone else who commits crimes as sick as this. But I need to get this out there: It costs more to execute someone than it is to jail them for life. Plus, if you keep them in jail for life you can study them and try to understand why committed did the heinous crimes they did, thereby possibly learning something productive about human psychology. You can also put them to WORK for the rest of their lives, actually helping the society they have harmed in the process of committing their crimes.
Ignorance does suck. Allow me to educate you:
Financial Costs
It is sometimes suggested that abolishing capital punishment is unfair to the taxpayer, as though life imprisonment were obviously more expensive than executions. If one takes into account all the relevant costs, the reverse is true. "The death penalty is not now, nor has it ever been, a more economical alternative to life imprisonment."(49)
A murder trial normally takes much longer when the death penalty is at issue than when it is not. Litigation costsincluding the time of judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and court reporters, and the high costs of briefsare all borne by the taxpayer.
A 1982 study showed that were the death penalty to be reintroduced in New York, the cost of the capital trial alone would be more than double the cost of a life term in prison.(50)
In Maryland, a comparison of capital trial costs with and without the death penalty for the years 1979-1984 concluded that a death penalty case costs "approximately 42 percent more than a case resulting in a non-death sentence."(51) In 1988 and 1989 the Kansas legislature voted against reinstating the death penalty after it was informed that reintroduction would involve a first-year cost of "more than $ 11 million."(52) Florida, with one of the nations largest death rows, has estimated that the true cost of each execution is approximately $3.2 million, or approximately six times the cost of a life-imprisonment sentence.(53)
The only way to make the death penalty a "better buy" than imprisonment is to weaken due process and curtail appellate review, which are the defendants (and societys) only protections against the grossest miscarriages of justice. The savings in dollars would be at the cost of justice: In nearly half of the death-penalty cases given review under federal habeas corpus, the conviction is overturned.(54)
