Death Penalty - what is your opinion about it?

[elprincipe]

nathantay said:

 

First off, Bob and Mary shouldn't have part of their tax money go to pay for the person who killed their kid to eat, read, work out, and have a roof over their head.

But to put someone to death would cost more of their (and your and my) taxpayer dollars, since it costs more to go through the legal process and procedure of the death penalty than it would for life imprisonment.  As I said above, the perpetrator should be made to work hard to make what restitution he can to the victim(s) and family of the victim(s).  I also would agree with your inference that prisons are too soft for violent offenders.