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Uber is correct. The death penalty is not cost effective. There have been studies done in several states that support this...I have posted them here at TFP before.
The only reasonable support for the death penalty can come from a sense that it is an acceptable form of dispensing justice and either you support it as a means of such or you don't. The system doesn't allow for much hair-splitting on an individual basis and it would be unreasonable to expect it to in a way that will make everyone comfortable. In other words, you would have to support it for the people who maliciously killed a 2-year-old and you would have to support it for the 18-year-old gangbanger who got involved in circumstances that spiraled out of his control and landed him on death row.
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