Breaking News: Boston bomber tells victims he's sorry as judge formally sentences him to death

[Normchacho]

bonzobanana said:

Normchacho said:

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.

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.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/05/01/considering-the-death-penalty-your-tax-dollars-at-work/

There are a lot of appeals involved in death penalty cases (some are mandatory) which cost time and money. The average death row inmate is in prison for 13 years before they are executed and cost much more per year than the general prison population ($90,000 more a year per inmate in California).

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-07-exepensive-to-execute_N.htm