Frozengale
Member
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2010
- Messages
- 161
- Reaction score
- 56
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Libertarian
This is my problem with the death penalty. Its actually not cheaper by a long shot. The cost of all the court preceding, supplied lawyers to the defendant, who often can't afford their own, and the huge amount of scrutiny that goes into deciding on a death penalty is enormous. Plus, most death row inmates sit on death years for years if not decades anyway.
Do you have statistics to back that up? I'm not saying your wrong I'm just wondering. Personally I think the death penalty should only be viable if there is no real room for doubt, that might eliminate some of the scrutiny and piles and piles of court proceedings. Then again probably not.