(August 30, 2015 at 11:26 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(August 30, 2015 at 10:16 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: 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.
As far as I know, the only appeals that death row inmates get that other convicts don't, are appeals [i]directly related to the execution.[i]
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