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I personally don't want to pay for his life in prison,
let him fade into a nice "permanent" sleep.
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Just to clear some things up, the expense to keep a person in jail for life is less than the legal fees of the government for all of the appeals they have to go through (which the defendant is entitled to, unless they decide they don't want to appeal).
Also, while (almost) everyone seems to say that this man should die, do you think that a state should be allowed to go against a ruling by the Supreme Court? I'm not entirely sure on how you would go about trying to get the supreme court to rule in favor of the death penalty for non-murder cases, but I think this would be that way right? This guy gets sentenced to death, and he would appeal over until he appealed to the Supreme Court to hear his case? But I'm not sure if an appeal for just the punishment can go to the Supreme Court, can it?