(August 30, 2015 at 6:00 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Nobody has mentioned money yet.
Why should the state feel compelled to support a mass murderer for maybe 50 or 60 years, at a cost of many hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of dollars, when a blindfold and $10 worth of bullets could eliminate the problem in about 10 seconds?
The appellate process in America, de jure, means that the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison, given the average number of years on Death Row.