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tunaplanet

How can one not be bitter?

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It's cheaper to just lock someone up for life. Death row inmates are very expensive to maintain.



How do you figure it's cheaper to keep someone for 50 years than to execute them in 10 or 20 or however?? :S



According to Richard Dieter, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., the most comprehensive cost study was published by Duke University researchers in 1993. This two-year study determined North Carolina's capital cases cost at least an extra $2.16 million per execution, compared to what taxpayers would have spent if defendants were tried without the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison. Applying those figures nationally would mean $1.69 billion were spent on the 784 executions carried out nationwide since 1976 (in 1993 dollars).

http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/cappun.htm

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Id rather be dead right now than spend the next 30 years in jail. The wors thing about jail is that it is full of people that I dont believe are criminals. Drug users. They have a problem, they are not criminals....Criminals hurt other. People with diseases hurt themselves and ahoud not be punished.

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