Hornburger
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Hornburger said:I am curious and too lazy to research this on my own lol.
Which costs more, the death penalty or life in prison, and why does this method cost more?
It would make more sense to me that the answer would be life in prison because the state would have to care for the prisoner for their whooole lives, which adds up to quite a few bucks, but when I talked to some people on DP they thought the death penalty costs more because of all the legal fees from appeals and such involved. What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
TimmyBoy said:I have heard that the Death Penalty costs more too, though I have not researched the facts on my own. So I can't say for sure if that is really true or not.
Navy Pride said:If the death penalty costs more its because of the lengthly time appeals take over 20 years in some cases.........If you cut down the appeal time to say 2 years it would be much cheaper to execute.......
jhawk said:Doesn't the length of time correspond to how quickly the appeals can be heard (i.e. once the last appeal is denied, a date is set)? If you put a time limit on appeals, wouldn't you be subverting the justice system? I could also see this causing a greater rift between wealthy and poor convicts, where the wealthy ones could buy there full set of appeals, and the poor one would get pushed aside. "Sorry, you weren't important enough to get your appeals heard. Time to die."
Hornburger said:I am curious and too lazy to research this on my own lol.
Which costs more, the death penalty or life in prison, and why does this method cost more?
It would make more sense to me that the answer would be life in prison because the state would have to care for the prisoner for their whooole lives, which adds up to quite a few bucks, but when I talked to some people on DP they thought the death penalty costs more because of all the legal fees from appeals and such involved. What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
skg said:i think it won't cost 500$ to exterminate someone including everything such as burying fees.
Navy Pride said:If the death penalty costs more its because of the lengthly time appeals take over 20 years in some cases.........If you cut down the appeal time to say 2 years it would be much cheaper to execute.......
Goldenboy219 said:But when you think about it, if life in prison is so much more punishing than the death penality, why arent prisoners appealing life sentences as much? What im saying is, why arent they asking to die as opposed to life?
Thats the main point of all anti-capital punishment people. That life in prison is actually worse. Wouldnt you see allot more lifers begging for death if this truly was the case. ****, wouldnt you see allot more suicide in prisons?
Or are free people basing these beliefs upon what they THINK is worse, rather than what they KNOW...
And if appeals were allowed for lifers,would the cost of imprisonment be that much more than the death penalty?
Goldenboy219 said:But when you think about it, if life in prison is so much more punishing than the death penality, why arent prisoners appealing life sentences as much? What im saying is, why arent they asking to die as opposed to life?
Goldenboy219 said:Thats the main point of all anti-capital punishment people. That life in prison is actually worse. Wouldnt you see allot more lifers begging for death if this truly was the case. ****, wouldnt you see allot more suicide in prisons?
Or are free people basing these beliefs upon what they THINK is worse, rather than what they KNOW...
And if appeals were allowed for lifers,would the cost of imprisonment be that much more than the death penalty?
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