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I don't support the death penalty. I should be abolished. It costs this country billions of dollars and make our streets less safe.
The death penalty does not cost that much money---the appeals do. I wonder how much it costs to jail and put to death a convicted person in a state like Texas vs Mass.?
I don't support the death penalty myself, but I do not think the $$$$ argument has ever been a valid one.
Really??? On THIS planet?
California
Report of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice
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You are talking about the processes of appeal. The execution of the death penalty itself costs very little.Theoretically, if states tightened up the trial process and sentencing guidelines and a few other things, the death penalty appeals process would cost very little as an added cost.
I am not a big defender of the death penalty, but the silly cost estimates remind me of defense spending cost estimates.
We have standing Armies, police and courts, yet when an individual instance of something is tallied for monetary purposes the costs reflect creative accounting methods.
Say we have a fully staffed fire department. Then we have one fire alarm. Accounting methods defining the costs of that one alarm response will include the costs that would be there whether or not the fire department responded or not. It's not a true estimate of the cost of answering that one alarm.