Friday, October 15, 2010
Journal 4
I believe that capital punishment is a necessity for the United States. People who kill others should not be shown mercy by the government because their victim was not shown any mercy by them. Every day people die from homicides and it is only the lucky ones [felons] who do not get to suffer the consequence of punishment by death. I feel like if you give someone a life sentence in prison, you are just giving them options. They have the option to make friends in prison, they can still talk to other people, they still get yard time, and enough food. They are basically bums and we, as the tax payers, are paying for it. I judge that if you murder someone, your rights are automatically taken away. You do not get options. The murderer should receive the same treatment he/she gave to their victim. I grew up remembering the golden rule: Do unto others as they would do unto you. That is how it should always be.
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Katelyn even though you think capital punishment is a necessity for the United States and we as tax payers are paying for people just to sit around in a cell...Execution actually costs up to $2 million per person, vs $500,000 for serving time in jail.
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ReplyDeleteLife without parole cases will cost $1.2 million - $3.6 million more than equivalent death penalty cases.
And life without parole prisoners face, on average, 30 or 40 years in prison while the annual cost of incarceration is $40,000 to $50,000 a year for each prisoner or more! There is no question that the up front costs of the death penalty are significantly higher than for equivalent life without parole cases. There also appears to be no question that, over time, equivalent life without parole cases are much more expensive - from $1.2 to $3.6 million - than death penalty cases. Opponents ludicrously claim that the death penalty costs, over time, 3-10 times more than life without parole. So in the end, the death penalty is the least expensive option.