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Originally posted by shalafi
the cost is easy to fix. Give them one appeal and if it fails theres a gibbet waiting for them outside the back door of the courthouse. Rope and wood are cheap.
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The late 1800's would have loved you! Are you from Texas?
I think you're saying that the appeal process lasts to long, is too expensive. That is a huge reason why the cost is more to off somebody than to let them rot. Cause they get fifteen hundred appeals. On the taxpayer's dole.
Remember though, that they also get a cell to themselves, more guards, a whole cellblock of buddies, and they live there on average for over a decade! This all adds up pretty quick. Plus capital trials just cost more.
I did a quick google search and found several sites that place the cost of just housing a guy for life at about a third of killing him. Money that can be spent elsewhere. Who wants their tax dollars going to this kind of scum?
I will be against the death penalty until someone can prove to me that it costs less to execute then to lock up and throw away the key.