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>>... a person who takes the life of >>another in a premeditated fashion should die in jail >>of natural causes .... and they don't do they >> >>.... and why don't they? ... because it's cheaper to >>kill ...and of course it takes up less space and you >>don't have to guard a dead person! > >I think if you run the numbers, it actually costs more >to execute a convict than to let them live out their >life in prison. This is because "lifers" need little >more than a secure detention facility and the basics >of life (food, clothes, medical attention). These >things are already provided to the less hardened >criminal population, so that infrastructure is already >in place. When you assign them to death row, you are >invoking a far more extensive set of legal challenges >often lasting years, public relations problems, >specialized facilities that are seldom utilized >(electric chair or whatever), and so on. Cheaper to >let them live, if that is going to be a part of the >decision making criteria.

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