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Death Penalty and Stanley Tookie Williams

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Minnemooseus
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Message 29 of 166 (268899)
12-13-2005 4:49 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by arachnophilia
12-13-2005 3:54 PM

Give the convicted the choice?
Capital punishment is an act of frugality. The real reason it's around is because it's cheaper.
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It is my understanding that the add expenses involved in going though the pre-execution appeals is greater than the costs of a life sentence.
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I would tend to think that spending the rest of your life in prison is more severe than being executed. Either way, you are destined to die in prison.
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My inclination is against the death penalty:
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1) Seemingly, a life sentence may well be less expensive for the government to pay for.
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2) A non-execution is at least somewhat reversable.
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I have the idea that the decision of an execution should be left to the convicted. The convicted is facing dieing in prison either way. Why not offer the choice of how soon?
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Moose
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Edited to change subtitle.
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This message has been edited by minnemooseus, 12-13-2005 04:51 PM
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12-17-2005 9:18 PM 		Reply to: Message 126 by Silent H
12-17-2005 6:34 PM

$ Cost of death penalty vs. Life in prison
I think I was the first one to bring up the idea that the death penalty can be more expensive than life in prison.
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In my searching, it seems that maybe the statistics can be bent to support whichever side to want them to support. One bit of information I found was an Amnesty International USA page, which included:
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* A 2003 legislative audit in Kansas found that the estimated cost of a death penalty case was 70% more than the cost of a comparable non-death penalty case. Death penalty case costs were counted through to execution (median cost $1.26 million). Non-death penalty case costs were counted through to the end of incarceration (median cost $740,000).
(December 2003 Survey by the Kansas Legislative Post Audit)
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* The estimated costs for the death penalty in New York since 1995 (when it was reinstated): $160 million, or approximately $23 million for each person sentenced to death. To date, no executions have been carried out.
(The Times Union, Sept. 22, 2003)
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* In Tennessee, death penalty trials cost an average of 48% more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment.
(2004 Report from Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Office of Research)
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Source: Page not found – Amnesty International USA
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