RE: Death Penalty
August 30, 2015 at 11:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2015 at 11:32 pm by bennyboy.)
(August 30, 2015 at 10:16 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(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.
That's right. But it is not execution itself that's expensive. I can do that for the price of a kitchen knife, if necessary. And consider the implications of this: that if someone is NOT on death row, they're not going to get the same appeals, even though life in prison is arguably as bad a punishment as execution. So maybe the real issue isn't the nature of the penalty, but the horrible inefficiency of the justice system in the US.
