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Norris2k said: What you say is correct, but it is much more a splendid example of absurdely high and inefficient public spending than a reason against death sentence. I mean, if this cost is real... this is unreal ! Also, it's not that much about spending (if reasonable). I mean, if someone steal a car and get 6 months of jail, I'm pretty sure it costs a lot more to put the guy in jail, than to forgive him. But the thing it is not just about this guy, it is about deciding if we can't live in a society where it's legal to steal a car (in term of morale and cost). Especially for murder, we would not cut the cost by halving the duration. Last but not least, I don't really think there is a really morale inconsistency in death sentence. Thou shalt not kill... for greed, jealousy, racism, angst, hate, etc. But thou shalt get killed after a proper trial if you kill for these reasons. I find it morally acceptable, frankly, and I'm not an uneducated texan. Even Europe have exceptions for army, in certain circumstances for police and self-defense, suicide, and perhaps someday for euthanasia. But still, I'm moderatly in favor of death sentence, I believe that there is nothing wrong about being against it, I would not fight for it, but I would even less fight against it. |
The costs aren't unreal. It costs more in every free and fair jurisdiction to have death row than it does to not have it.
I don't believe in murder. I don't want the government murdering on my behalf. Especially since a certain percentage of all convicted felons are actually innocent. What percentage of innocent people will you accept dying in exchange for murdering the guilty ones? 1% 3%? 5%? Most estimates I've seen of the number of actually innocent people on death row are in the 3-4% range. There's no perfect system, if you are murdering the guilty you'll also be murdering the innocent to some degree. So let's put a number on how many innocent you'd accept dying in exchange for the death of the guilty. I'm genuinely curious on what acceptable collateral damage number you'd put on it.
