the difference between 17 and 18

[xoxoxoBruce]

Would like to pay my share of supporting these miscreants for the next 50 years or more?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Would like to pay my share of supporting these miscreants for the next 50 years or more?

I have no citations for you to support this, but I understand that it generally costs more to execute a person than it does to lock them up for life. It's all the legal costs of the numerous appeals in a death penalty case, the time spent in special facilities on death row, etc. There is an economy of scale to just throwing them in with the general prison population for life.

But I don't think the death penalty is wrong because it costs more.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

I have no citations for you to support this, but I understand that it generally costs more to execute a person than it does to lock them up for life. It's all the legal costs of the numerous appeals in a death penalty case, the time spent in special facilities on death row, etc. There is an economy of scale to just throwing them in with the general prison population for life.

I believe you and I also believe that's fucked up.
Lawyers are the bane of us all.