Khuutra on 16 October 2010
| badgenome said: For it in theory, against it in practice. There are people who deserve to die, certainly, but I don't really trust a government not to fuck that up, and it's my understanding that it's more expensive to execute someone than it is to imprison them for life - which sounds so stupid and counterintuitive that it must be true |
This is almost definitely not true.
The average cost for someone to be imprisoned in California - as I recall - is about 50,000 USD a year; as in you could send them to UC Berkley with room, board, books, and everything, and spend a lot less money.
Extrapolate that shit to fifty years.
