Post by Near on Oct 23, 2006 17:41:15 GMT -5
Revenge is great isn't it?
I really try to understand why someone would find the death penalty good... but I just don't get it.
Care to explain?
1) It's more expensive to use the death penalty.
"In its review of death penalty expenses, the State of Kansas concluded that capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-death penalty cases. The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The costs of appeals were 29% of the total expense, and the incarceration and execution costs accounted for the remaining 22%. "
2) Before someone goes and commits a crime that would end in the death penalty.. do they think of the consequences? They are INSANE. They don't care if they die. And if they do.. they certainly aren't thinking about it. I can't see how having the death penalty would keep things under control.
3) Is it JUST?
If you decide to kill them.. shouldn't you get the death penalty too?
Aren't you just as bad as they are?
I really try to understand why someone would find the death penalty good... but I just don't get it.
Care to explain?
1) It's more expensive to use the death penalty.
"In its review of death penalty expenses, the State of Kansas concluded that capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-death penalty cases. The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The costs of appeals were 29% of the total expense, and the incarceration and execution costs accounted for the remaining 22%. "
2) Before someone goes and commits a crime that would end in the death penalty.. do they think of the consequences? They are INSANE. They don't care if they die. And if they do.. they certainly aren't thinking about it. I can't see how having the death penalty would keep things under control.
3) Is it JUST?
If you decide to kill them.. shouldn't you get the death penalty too?
Aren't you just as bad as they are?
