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Dirty Rat
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A shotgun shell is pretty cheap... you would get many uses out of the gun...
the only other things you need would be a rubber suit with boots and a face shield and a room with a drain to carry out the sentence. |
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cafe_au_lait
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Florida Spent Average of $3.2 Million per Execution from 1973 to 1988
During that time period, Florida spent an estimated $57 million on the death penalty to achieve 18 executions. ("Bottom Line: Life in Prison One-Sixth as Expensive,"
check out this web site
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=108&scid=7 |
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prison is more cost effective. Capital trials cost way more |
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immortality1231981
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Prison--the litigation costs of constantly appealing the death sentence in addition to keeping the convicted in prison. |
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George N
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With all the legal proceedings, it's difficult to say that a death sentence is cost effective.
If there were no legal system, it would be very cheap for the state, but it wouldn't be good thing for you if you were actually innocent. |
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shenkie123
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In third world countries the death sentence is cheaper because of the empty seat at the table during diner.
In modern countries its cheaper to put criminals in prison, since prison sentences have way cheaper bureaucratic procedures. Death sentences need to be filed and approved at several places, including international ones (modern governments cant just sentence their citizens to death whenever they please...). Death sentences are extremely expensive! |
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Hachi
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It depends how long the person would be in prison, and what method was used for the death penalty. |
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Susan S
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Prison and many people are surprised to find this out. The death penalty is much more expensive because of the upfront (before and during the initial trial) costs of the legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.
Examples with sources:
Washington State:
•At the trial level, death penalty cases are estimated to generate roughly $470,000 in additional costs to the prosecution and defense over the cost of trying the same case as an aggravated murder without the death penalty and costs of $47,000 to $70,000 for court personnel.
(Final Report of the Death Penalty Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Defense, Washington State Bar Association, December 2006,
http://www.wsba.org/lawyers/groups/committeeonpublicdefense.htm
Tennessee: “Death penalty trials cost an average of 48% more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment.” (The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Office of Research's Report, "Tennessee's Death Penalty: Costs and Consequences."
http://www.comptroller.state.tn.us/orea/reports/deathpenalty.pdf
Kansas: “For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The investigation costs for death-sentence cases were about 3 times greater than for non-death cases. The trial costs for death cases were about 16 times greater than for non-death cases ($508,000 for death case; $32,000 for non-death case).” (. Kansas: Performance Audit Report: Costs Incurred for Death Penalty Cases: A K-GOAL Audit of the Department of Corrections)
Other states report similar findings.
National: National Bureau of Economic Research, The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions, by Katherine Baicker
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8382
The report estimates that between 1982-1997 the extra cost of capital trials was $1.6 billion. (NBER Working Paper No. w8382, Issued in July 2001)
And some of the factors in the higher costs of death penalty trials.
• more pre-trial time will be needed to prepare: cases typically take a year to come to trial
• more pre-trial motions will be filed and answered
• more experts will be hired
• twice as many attorneys will be appointed for the defense, and a comparable team for the prosecution
• jurors will have to be individually quizzed on their views about the death penalty, and they are more likely to be sequestered
• two trials instead of one will be conducted: one for guilt and one for punishment
• the trial will be longer: a cost study at Duke University estimated that death penalty trials take 3 to 5 times longer than typical murder trials
And yes, appeals in death penalty cases are more expensive. In death penalty cases, there is at least one mandatory appeal, during which the condemned person is held in the higher and more expensive security of death row.
Most people are surprised to realize how much more the death penalty costs. I have more sources and links if you need them.
Hope this helps. |
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njr
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Depends on where it is at. The actual cost of an execution is minimal however some states have appeals processes and Judicial proceedures implemented specifically to drive the cost through the roof. If your state has a time from conviction to carrying out of the sentence of 3 to 5 years it is clearly cheaper as the cost of housing is approximately 33K per year, per head on the average.
Mind boggling how many people don't read the question. |
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Craig B
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If you really mean "cost effective", prison is cheaper than the death penalty. It seems counterintuitive, but the facts are that by the time the state defends against all the legal appeals that every death penalty case entails, sometimes required by law, and deals with the requirements of putting someone to death, the costs soar far beyond what it would cost to keep most inmates in jail for life. There is also the issue of many, many people being put to death and subsequently being found innocent. This can lead to multi-million dollar payouts to the executed inmates' family. |
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sally
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cost effective?
like which one takes more money?
thats messed up that youre worried about that |
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lizmov
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death penalty. life in prison is very expensive. food, guards and keeping the prison open , also you should lose the right to life when take away somelse's life who has done nothing to deserve it. |
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Filimon A
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prison cuz they will get a chance to learn from their mistake while death penalty they won't get second to learn from their past and become a better person. |
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sublime_savvy
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The death sentence is by far the most cost effective...especially if we reinstitute public hangings which will result in the following:
--less crime rates because people SEE how they will die
--recycling of the rope used to kill the previous criminals instead of adding to a dead person's health care costs by sterilizing the needle for leathal injections (why do we do that again??)
--makes recidivism rates 0
(for those who don't know what recidivism is: it means likelihood of repeating the same or other criminal act)
"The U.S. Criminal Justice Institute reports the national recidivism rate is about 33 percent over a three-year period. But that estimate can be as high as 40 to 60 percent, depending on the reporting organization." |
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Matt P
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It depends on the crime. It costs $50-$100 a day per inmate at the taxpayers expense. Yes trials are costly too, but does anyone wants their tax money going to house inmates likes murders and pedophiles that might escape and possibly kill or rape our kids. Does anyone want that on their coincidence? J think murders and pedophiles should get the death penalty. |
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GILMOUR R
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we all know .but not willing to stand up?we are scared |
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jonathan c
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Prison cause they have to suffer and with death penalty they dont have to sit in a cell forever and regret what they did |
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StarDream221
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death penalty. people think of prison as in just a penalty for a certain amount of time. When they get out, they're free. but if they die, they're penaltized forever |
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Mr Lindsay Lohan
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I think a bullet to the head (death by firing squad) is a lot cheaper than feeding, housing, clothing, and bathing a man who committed murder for 60 years. |
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prison so ppl can reform instead of just put to death |
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Scream. Aim. Fire.
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prision
because instead of dieing instantly they get to stay in a cell and do nothin g for the rest of their lives |
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TopPotts
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I've never thought about it, but I would say the death sentence. Penal punishments are intended not only to teach the criminal a lesson, but also to discourage others from committing the same crime. If, through the death sentence, this is successful, then in the long run it would be more cost-effective. Otherwise a potential murderer or other hard-core criminal would feel it's worth the risk of getting caught, or paying the penalty, to commit the crime. |
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insanity. basically.
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prison.
how will the person learn a lesson if they are sentenced to death? |
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Jennifer W
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To be honest I believe neither! I have done extensive research on the death penalty and the effect it has on crime levels for a college paper and actually it deters crime very little if any! When a criminal is going to commit a crime they are not thinking "hmm will I get killed for this" Now on to the prison system! In my opinion a housing unit for the under educated and instead of rehabilitation we create hardened criminals who have a 68% chance of returning to prison within a year upon release! I think that country has to change in a whole starting with our communities with neighborhood watches and looking out for one another and human beings need to tap into their self and give instead of being so self-centered if we all just gave a lil criminals and non criminals we wouldn't have an overcrowding prison and in many cases would not have to put people to death! |
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NEON ZEBRA$$
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alicat is what i agree with |
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tiny dancerr ♥
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In my opinion, the death sentence is more effective towards whoever observes that person's situation (they are more afraid to do something wrong).. but for the person who committed the crime, life in prison is worse because they have to keep thinking about what they did for the rest of their life. |
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Tired Trucker
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personally, if my butt was going down and had to choose, I'd prefer death. I'm a truck driver, and I chose that profession because I can't tolerated being cooped up in a building. For me living in a cage until I die would be the next worse thing to hell. But that's not everyone. A lot of criminals will do a lot of bargaining to get out of the death penalty. |
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Dorothy
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speaking strictly along the lines of being cost effective,,, the death penalty.... if they would do it right away... but in America we keep a person on death row for many years and there are appeals in some cases...so it is hard to say generally.. it would have to be on a case to case basis
Common sense tells you that to keep a person in prison for life in which you feed them, clothe them, entertain them (yes your tax dollars entertain killers giving them their weight rooms and TVs and DVDS, etc...) for life costs quite a lot of money....never mind that you are paying for the building that houses them, the employees of the prison, the utilities that are paid also...it all adds up. |
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rag112
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I didn't know what cost you where talking about so i gave you both.
Staying in prison would probably cost more. I only say this because you are made to pay for your consequences. if you kill 20 ppl you should be sent into the jail and left there to root. Prison changes ppl. Death penalty is an incentive to do things that are otherwise not permitted. Whats worse death or life in prison. I say death don't you?
If you where talking about monetary costs then i think that staying in prison would also cost more. Prisoners have a budget that constantly goes up. This budget now surpasses 50k for some inmates. this budget pays for food, cloths, etc. when you kill a person you don't have that budget anymore. so even if killing a person costs 200 thousand it still doesn't amount to the projected budget of an inmate who has a life sentence. |
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Class of '09
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Jail, suffer |
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