hog88
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Costs more to execute someone than to keep them in prison for the rest of their life.
Sure it does. It eliminates financial burden of the state caring for a person that has become of no use to society.
Its not any cheaper. A capital case is more expensive to prosecute, theres more appeals, and a death row occupant is more expensive to house. Nowadays if you get the death penalty youve probably got 25 years before your appeals are exhausted.
I kid you not...I have a family member that used to work at a state penitentiary. A person on death row would regularly be treated at an area hospital for cancer. His execution date was repeatedly moved back because legally, he had to 'be well' before he could be executed.
Its not any cheaper. A capital case is more expensive to prosecute, theres more appeals, and a death row occupant is more expensive to house. Nowadays if you get the death penalty youve probably got 25 years before your appeals are exhausted.
Serious question. I'm not personally religious, but I know a lot of you are. So I'm wondering how you claim to follow the teachings of Jesus and believe that capital punishment is consistent with those teachings.
Yes the prosecuting of a death case is much more expensive.
Making a statement that it costs less to keep someone alive for 50 years than to execute them, is disingenuous.
That is pure nonsense. Made up by people that fight the death penalty. IF that number were true it is only because of the legal maze orchestrated to actually reach a termination.
No one can argue 50 years of sustaining someone costs less than 2 years of sustaining someone plus the cost of terminating them. Utter nonsense.
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These are the years the men in question committed their crimes. Theyve been housed in death row since their trials concluded, which is more expensive to maintain than the normal population. How is this markedly cheaper than being housed in genpop for life?
If youre wanting to pursue a capital case it needs to be absolutely 100% slam dunk impossible to overturn. Otherwise you get left with stuff like this, old men crying illness so they dont have to pay for the crimes of their youth. Meanwhile the taxpayer foots the bill.
There have been multiple people convicted and sentenced to death only to be exonerated decades later. Without the appeals process innocents would have been executed.
Obviously you dont want to answer the question.