VGC Debate/Poll: The Death Penalty

[elprincipe]

For those of you who seem to think it's cheaper to execute someone (as if that is a reasonable argument anyway), here's what you need to know: it's not. Read here:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

The main reason it costs more is because of court costs, which are astronomical because of the exhaustive appeals process demanded by the death penalty. You could argue that we should streamline the appeals process, but that is a decidedly uncomfortable argument for most since we already have had people freed from death row due to new evidence (or reexamination of DNA evidence) proving them innocent.