cost of death vs cost of life

Not to mention that if a person gets 30 years' of appeals, he has already lived nearly as long as many people who get life in prison. Add to that the costs of the appeals, plus the costs of the silly red tape involved in the execution, and it's little wonder that it cost more to execute someone.

 

Or they could live some place in which the streets are already dangerous and they live in little cubicles, but have little food to eat.

 

The rope may cost more, but you can reuse it.

Most people, like me, who are for the death penalty realize that many of the benefits that we get from the death penalty (deterrent, punishment, cost) are lost due to the long time span between the commission of the crime and the execution of the criminal. There is a very simple federal solution to the death penalty delay problem. We need a federal death court. Anyone sentenced to death in any state is forwarded immediately to the federal death court. There the case may be reviewed by competent legal minds and any appeals considered within 30 days. There is no reason the execution could not be carried out within 60 days of the sentencing. This would eliminate the complaints of death penalties being administered differently in different states but at the same time states that for some reason choose not to use the death penalty would not have to participate.

 

"It is not the death penalty which cost more, it is the appeals, and the subsequent room and board.

Joseph Botwinick"

Right on Joseph! And don't think for a minute that if the death penalty was done away with, that the appeals process would stop. Then groups who raise their monies based on prisoners' rights would be demanding those same appeals for murderes serving life with no parole. I personally don't think the appeals would reduce significantly as next we would be told that life with no parole sentences were cruel and unusual too.

"They can sue over not being able to wear a certain type of clothing, They can order videos from video rental places to watch. They can order fast food. They have access to computers."

None of those things are true in the state prisons of North Carolina,even today.