Quote Originally Posted by sdffa11
i did a research report on the death penalty and its necessary to have capital punishment in america. do you know how much it costs just to keep people in prison for life compared to that of killing them off.
if the punishment fits the crime, they should die. why should the taxpayers have to pay to keep the criminal alive?
Apparently you didn't do a very good report. The US has this little thing called the appeals process, which means in the case of capital punishment its far more expensive to execute than to simply detain for life.
Just in California alone the death penalty system costs taxpayers over $114 million a year beyond the cost of simply keeping the convicts locked up for life.

I'll tell you what the problem is, it's our pesky notion of human rights that's what it is. Due process? bah, we know who's guilty, right?
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