50 years on death row

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

https://apnews.com/article/creech-idaho-...45fb6e5ebb

I'm not sure what I think of this. I'm generally against the death penalty anyway, but he is a serial killer, after all. But does his growing mellow with age justify the support mentioned in the article above? Another part of me eels that his 50 years behind bars is a fate worse than death anyway.

#1 2024 - 1981 is 41 years. 

I am against the death penalty for the simple reason that the state can spend virtually indefinite money on prosecution but the accused are limited to mostly public defenders who do not have the time to mount a proper defense. But if one wants to talk about taxes. It costs far more in taxes to prosecute a death penalty case than to simply give them life without parole. 

5 convictions he certainly should never leave prison. I have no sympathy for him. But I am still against the death penalty. 

But for any others accused of a single death that could be anything from involuntary manslaughter but over charged, a poor person can be very easily railroaded by the system, or be so scared to falsely confess, which does happen. 

The potential risk of killing an innocent person is not worth the cost. Life in prison without parole can be reversed if an innocent person is convicted.

(Bold mine)

In this case, that doesn’t apply - Creech’s guilty is so firmly established that to doubt it would be perverse.

And he STILL shouldn’t be executed.

Boru