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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (15865)	6/6/2001 4:35:47 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

So, you are willing to risk killing innocent people to save a few bucks?

To: average joe who wrote (15865)	6/6/2001 4:42:05 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It's about economics? Are you claiming that given the US prison population of 2 million or so, the death penalty makes any difference economically? Maybe if you manage to install capital punishment for all the stupid war on drugs things that are loading up the prisons now. Ayn Rand would surely approve of that.

To: average joe who wrote (15865)	6/6/2001 4:48:40 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 82486

I believe the average cost of keeping someone in prison is about $20,000 a year. So, a killer would have to live at least 50 years in jail to cost one million. Actually, it costs more to give someone the death penalty than it does to send them to life imprisonment, since there are so many appeals nowadays and it is a lot more expensive to keep someone on death row, where they usually stay for many years, than in the general prison population. My belief is that if society says it is wrong to kill, then it is wrong for society to kill.