Normchacho said:
bonzobanana said:
Why should the american tax payer pay to keep his sorry ass alive when that money could be used to save many lives or improve others. He isn't safe to release, he has taken many lives as long as we are certain of his guilt he deserves to die. I can understand a waiting period to make sure the evidence is thoroughly checked but then he should be humanely and privately killed and his ashes should be scattered and not given back to the relatives.
He may have genuine regrets for what he has done or he may just be pretending but whatever he has taken away the lives of others and those people are gone completely from existence and so should he.
We allow good people to starve to death in poor countries so we can certainly let evil scum be put to death who had huge advantages in life but still took innocent lives.
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It's actually more expensive to put somebody to death than it is to keep it hem in prison for life.
personally, I just don't think the death penalty makes sense. I don't think our justice system should be in the business of revenge. They should be making our country safer and keeping someone in prison for life does that just as well as killing them.
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I don't know how your statistics work out but he is a young man and lets say he had 50 years of life left and each year cost $20,000 in prison (low estimate I believe) that is $1 million dollars. I see no reason why a death sentence would cost no more than $5.000. However I would definitely want a delay to execution where the evidence is fully investigated which would add to costs.
I don't know what figures you have though but on face value it sounds like they will be totally ridiculous.
Clearly there should be huge savings. However I know its easy to prove anything you want with statistics.
