ChrisL
Diamond Member
The High Cost of the Death Penalty
The exorbitant costs of capital punishment are actually making America less safe because badly needed financial and legal resources are being diverted from effective crime fighting strategies. Before the Los Angeles riots, for example, California had little money for innovations like community policing, but was managing to spend an extra $90 million per year on capital punishment. Texas, with over 300 people on death row, is spending an estimated $2.3 million per case, but its murder rate remains one of the highest in the country.
Morally, I'm for the death penalty. I see no reason to keep a Charles Manson, or a Ted Bundy alive after what they did.
But, as another poster has already stated.............it takes too many years and MILLIONS of dollars to execute a prisoner...................It also ties up the court system and leads to increased cost to the Gov'ts and States in the end.
For FISCAL reasons...........I'm against the death penalty.
I don't really feel sorry for the prisoners though (the ones you KNOW are guilty), don't get me wrong. There are just a lot of things wrong with the death penalty that could never be fixed.