| elprincipe said: 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. |
This is just another one of the anti-death penalty lies. Don't be fooled by them.
They wouldn't let you execute someone caught red handed, on tape, with 50 eye witnesses,and DNA evidence, and a signed confession without the same length appeal.
It is more expensive because the death penalty opponents made it that way. They added unnecessary apeals and processes for the purpose of making the death penalty too expensive.
They just love to talk about cherry picked cases where "oh noes, he could be innocent" and never the cases where the amount of evidence is 100%. How about those we hang those 100% guilties within two weeks of the guilty verdict?
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
