[QUOTE="daniel52587"][QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"][QUOTE="daniel52587"][QUOTE="Marx_Brother"][QUOTE="daniel52587"][QUOTE="Marx_Brother"] [QUOTE="snrsmith23"]Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people (19 of which were children) in the Oklahoma City bombing and was executed for it on June 11, 2001. I would like to know how anyone doesn't think he deserved to get executed.yoshi-lnex
I would rather see killers like that spend their entire life in prison or hard labor because that is a lot worse than getting the death sentence.
But that costs us money. It wastes our tax money we give up to the government. They waste it as it is on foreign crap, the last thing we need is for it to be wasted on a bunch of low life criminals.... It costs you a lot of money to have them executed as well... either way it costs money. Plus, it's not about the money in your pocket, idiot, it's about the criminal.
It is about the money that comes out of my pay check to pay for their prison time. Paying for their life in prison, 20, 40, 80 years is way more than having them killed. Do you know anything? How old are you, like 14. Shut up, you have no clue as to what you are talking about. You relize that executions costs anywhere from 2 to 10 times the money it would to keep them in jail.So if you support the death penalty, you're actually supporting higher taxes on your said pay check.
No it doesnt. Show me proof and I will believe you. Our tax money goes to their food, clothing, soap, seating, cell room, lunch room, the prison itself, more guards, more steel to make the keys, etc. You dont realize how much it takes to run a prison. The more people we throw in their, the more we have to cough up. It is cheaper to just kill them.The facts tend to disagree
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/FactSheet.pdf
http://www.tcadp.org/facts.php#factsh
TRIAL: court personnel $ 74,000
jury panel $ 17,220
2 defense attorneys, expert
witnesses, investigators $112,400
3 prosecuting attorneys $ 38,052
judge $ 23,968
total $265,640
STATE APPEALS: defense $15,000
prosecution $29,000
reproducing trial records $20,000
court of criminal appeals$30,240
total $94,240
FEDERAL APPEAL: defense counsel $ 92,000
state attorney general's office $ 19,600
appellate court $ 1,708,000
total $ 1,819,600
DEATH ROW INCARCERATION:
inmate $ 136,875
TOTAL COST: $ 2,316,355 vs Life in Prison: $750,000
(source: Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992)
A 2003 study in Kansas determined that capital cases cost the state 70% more per case than comparable non-capital cases, including incarceration.
A 2002 study in Indiana found that it was 38% more expensive for capital cases including incarceration, and 20% of death sentences were later resentenced to life.
A comprehensive 1993 Duke University study found that a typical capital case cost the state $2.13 million dollars more than a typical non-death penalty murder case.
A 2000 report of every execution in Florida after 1976 found that Florida spends $51 million additional dollars per year on death penalty cases compared to first-degree murder cases with life without parole. The 44 executions have cost Florida approximately $24 million each.
A 1992 Dallas Morning News article found that the average death penalty case costs $2.3 million more than incarceration in maximum for 40 years. (SunFyre's Two Cents: Coincidentally, Texas executes by far the most people, you'd think they'd get a quantity discount.)
A 1988 study found that California spends $90 million annually on death penalty cases, and $78 million of that is incurred in court costs.
http://www.mindspring.com/~phporter/econ.html
The only thing this demonstrates is that the death penalty process should be made more efficient, not that it should be done away with. 
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