Sentenced to death - Do you think its fair?

[Virtual Fighter]

To all those who think putting them in jail for a long time and/or life is a just punishment I hope you realize that we, the tax payers, are paying to keep them in there. As in, feeding them. The less ppl in there the better.

A Duke University study found... "The death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of imprisonment for life." ( The costs of processing murder cases in North Carolina / Philip J. Cook, Donna B. Slawson ; with the assistance of Lori A. Gries. [Durham, NC] : Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, 1993.)

"The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total is incurred at the trial level." (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988).

"A 1991 study of the Texas criminal justice system estimated the cost of appealing capital murder at $2,316,655. In contrast, the cost of housing a prisoner in a Texas maximum security prison single cell for 40 years is estimated at $750,000." (Punishment and the Death Penalty, edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum 1995 p.109 )

"Florida spent an estimated $57 million on the death penalty from 1973 to 1988 to achieve 18 executions - that is an average of $3.2 million per execution."
(Miami Herald, July 10, 1988).

"Florida calculated that each execution there costs some $3.18 million. If incarceration is estimated to cost $17000/year, a comparable statistic for life in prison of 40 years would be $680,000."
(The Geography of Execution... The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America, Keith Harries and Derral Cheatwood 1997 p.6)

Figures from the General Accounting Office are close to these results. Total annual costs for all U.S. Prisons, State and Federal, was $17.7 billion in 1994 along with a total prison population of 1.1 million inmates. That amounts to $16100 per inmate/year.
(GOA report and testimony FY-97 GGD-97-15 )

From this; the cost of keeping a 25-year-old inmate for 50 years at present amounts to $805,000. Assuming 75 years as an average life span, the $805,000 figure would be the cost of life in prison. So roughly it's costing us $2 million more to execute someone than it would cost to keep them in jail for life. "

It costs LESS to send someone to jail for life.

plus, he will appeal, then they will say no, the he will apeal, they will say no, ect.

On CNN they actually said he is more likley to DIE IN DEATH ROwbefore he is actually put to death.

you ("the tax payer") will be paying for his exsecution, for him to die in jail.

that's the same as putting him to life in prison but NOT having you spend the money on warming up the chair.

capital punishment is a terrible, terrible idea that costs WAY to much to be put through.

yes, what he did was wrong (he might have not even done it, those jurors are retards, anyway) but he doesnt deserve to COSTS THE STATE MILLIONS OF DOLLERS FOR HIS DEATH.

life in jail is the only way. it's the ONLY WAY.



Edited By Virtual Fighter on 1103057856