This from one source: http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-cost
And to counteract any bias from this source: This from Fox?! http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/27/just-cost-death-penalty-killer-state-budgets/ Myself I'm not sure, so as I say the jury is still outon this question as far as I'm concerend. On May 19, 2:41 pm, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know what the current cost is but 10 years ago the cost of housing > an inmate was over $50,000 a year. Assuming a 40 year life sentence that > would be over 2 million. I'm pretty sure you can kill someone for less. > Hell, I'd do it for half that... > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:41 AM, [email protected] < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry Chuck totaly missed this one: > > > I disagree. Killing a killer has value. > > > It removes a threat from society. > > It frees up resources needed to protect the society from that killer. > > It provides a deterrent against other killings. > > > So does life in prision. > > The jury is still out on that one as to cost re lifes imprisioment and > > cost of the dealth penalty. > > For that single indivdual yes. > > > On May 19, 1:12 am, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:23 AM, [email protected] < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why should we not? > > > > Why should we not what? > > > > > Should we instead make our selfs guilty of the same behaviour that > > > > seems universal reprehensabile? Should we then sink to that level > > > > ourselves? Two wrongs don't make a right and all that. > > > > My original point was that life is cheap. We don't kill because it's > > right > > > or wrong. We kill for expediency. > > > > > The point is to maintian that moral superiority. If a man steals from > > > > me, can I then steal from him? Wouldn't that make me also a theif? > > > > Personally I don't claim any kind of superiority - moral or otherwise. If > > > somebody steals from me I'll try to steal back my property and possibly > > > anything else that happens to be lying around. I may even give the guy a > > > punch in the nose on the way out the door. If you want to call me a thief > > > for it go ahead. > > > > > revenge killings as we know only lead to further revenge killings. We > > > > have here in the UK a growing youth gang problem, with kids killing > > > > other kids for slights imagined or otherwise, and then in turn the > > > > other gang of kids killing members of the ther other gang. Is that > > > > right, it is the correct behaviour? > > > > This just leads into the whole argument - is war right or wrong. Is it > > wrong > > > for a street gang to retaliate when it's territory is breached by a rival > > > gang? If no then why is it right for nations to do the same thing? > > > > > Killing a killer makes no logical sense. > > > > I disagree. Killing a killer has value. > > > > It removes a threat from society. > > > It frees up resources needed to protect the society from that killer. > > > It provides a deterrent against other killings.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
