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02-24-2014, 12:31 AM
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Re: 2013 Executions in the USA
Umm... no it doesnt. Also, a good friend of mine that is a former Commonwealth's Attorney here in Virginia prosecuted two people that were then sentenced to death and executed by the state. As he puts it, "it is not any more morally reprehensible to let them sit in a jail cell than it is to put them to death." |
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02-24-2014, 12:39 PM
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Re: 2013 Executions in the USA
No, it does not. The average cost to house, feed, and provide for a federal inmate in the United States is $35,000 a year. Life imprisonment will cost the taxpayer per inmate an approximate $1,750,000 for every 5 decades spent behind bars; then multiply it by the total number of inmates that have been incarcerated for 50 years and with life without parole housed per state. Also, it is up to the system to be fiscally responsible when trying capital cases so the states allocated funds are cost effective. The only argument against capital punishment is that the state chucks out millions in trying a capital case and capital cases number so few (the average capital case costs about $2 million [according to Dudley Sharp, Death Penalty Resources Director of Justice For All]). What is not taken into account in these statistics, however, is the millions wasted on appeals to the Supreme Court for everyday convicts, which is just as costly to the taxpayer. My only argument against capital punishment is reasonable doubt, which if proven to not be of any concern whatsoever, then certainly punishing obscene offenders by sentencing them to death is very reasonable. |
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02-25-2014, 12:49 AM
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Re: 2013 Executions in the USA
you admit that the average death penalty case costs more than a life sentence. You mention the high costs of appeals as the reason for this, in fact say that its "wasted", but then also mention that reasonable doubt must be eliminated. The only way to eliminate all reasonable doubt is through the appeals process. If you get rid of that, its no better than a dictatorship where they convict you then haul you outside for execution. The 2 million number is not reliable to say the least. It varies greatly state to state, case to case...... A lot of the time the total costs cannot be determined. You picked one that is in the low end of the spectrum, there are some that are estimated to have cost over 10 million dollars. You're also assuming that a guy is going to be able to survive 50 years in federal prison...... |
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02-26-2014, 09:20 AM
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Re: 2013 Executions in the USA
I'm glad to see a man who was actually part of the system talk about this. I'm also glad to see the number of executions declining and the support for capital punishment going down. God b less than intelligent.  |
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02-26-2014, 05:07 PM
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 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:1802 Male Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 286 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 32 Post(s)
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Re: 2013 Executions in the USA
Uh huh, yeah wait till someone you love is raped murdered and discarded like trash.
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