(August 4, 2022 at 3:31 am)Macoleco Wrote:(August 4, 2022 at 2:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It's actually MORE costly to taxpayers to execute someone than it is to incarcerate them long term. I mean, unless you want to scrap all that pesky, pricey stuff like lawyers, evidence, appeals...you know - 'rights'.
Boru
Don’t you have to pay for that even if the person is imprisoned?
Capital crimes typically have longer pre-trial periods, more extensive forensic testing, more (and more complex) appeals, higher legal fees (almost always paid - on both sides - by taxpayers, more expensive security (both pre-trial and after sentencing), etc.
On average in the US (practically the only Western nation that still engages in this nonsense), it costs roughly one million dollars to execute someone. The average incarceration costs are about 35K per year. Since the average time between sentencing and execution is 19 years, this means that it costs $335 000 more to lock someone up for 20 years and then let them out than it costs to lock someone up for 20 years and then kill them.
Boru
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