The Death Penalty

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death penalty costs much more than having an inmate stay in prison for life without being executed. According to freedman the cost to have an inmate on death row and have him or her executed is roughly around $ 3.2 million dollars which is nearly six times more than to just house an inmate for life. Most would think it would the other way around, but it's not. So why have the death penalty if it costs so much and it's the tax payers who are paying for it, many of these tax payers don't realize what goes into having an inmate on death row waiting to be executed, there's the pre-trial, the actual trial, the gathering of evidence, the jury, the appeals process that's if they appeal it because the inmate didn't like the first verdict they received and the continued housing of the inmate. I didn't know all that I thought it would be cheaper to execute than to sit. I didn't know it was that expensive to execute someone. I'm almost certain that if the taxpayers knew that they would ...

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them more money to just kill them rather than house them and paying for their court appointed attorney. I think that the people who are out committing crimes, any kind of crime would have a better chance of having a new life with better resources avaible to them. There are resources out now, but they are not as good as they could be that's why there are so many repeat offenders.

Last but not least is the almighty politician, which is pretty much a guy in a suit and tie sitting at a desk signing whatever paper is put in front of him or her. This class of people may agree with Jay Johansen, who in his article "Does the Death Penalty Deter Crime "? In here Johansen states " the homicide ...

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