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Subject: The Price of Death

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Brian

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Date Posted: 02/28/02 7:23pm
In reply to: ozboy 's message, "Clever Biscuit." on 02/28/02 9:31am

>... 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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