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crfpilot, It's been mentioned many times and no one has bothred to address it, and since you're the latest person to say we should be speedier at executing people, I'll ask you. What about the people who are convicted - by juries - and are actually innocent? It is a fact - executing someone costs more than keeping them in prison for life. Now, if you had your way, then executing WOULD be cheaper. It would also be unconstitutional (shooting someone in the head with a gun falls under cruel and unusual punishment, especially since they could survive) and faster. On top of that, those 100+ people who have been sentenced to death despite being innocent in the past 3 decades or so would all be dead. Every single one of them. Would it be cheaper? Yes. All I want to know is, are you willing to kill those 100+ innocent people? The question has been ignored by many in this thread and all I'm asking is for you to either admit that you feel killing 100+ innocent people is a valid price for speedy and cheaper executions of murderers, or to admit that it's better to give those people a chance and accept the consequences which include it being more costly to execute than imprison for life.
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