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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 3:14:33 GMT -6
Today China, Iran, North Korea , Yemen and the U.S. are the only G7 countries that still execute people. I think it's wrong and we're not in very good company.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 8:37:23 GMT -6
I agree. Never been a fan.
Killing is wrong, no matter who's doing it.
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Post by matador on Sept 2, 2015 20:22:31 GMT -6
Should it be abolished is a good question. I live in the city here that houses the death chamber and on execution days I stay far away from that place. Right now they are doing about 3 executions every two months or 1 and a half a month.
I don't promote death, but the most heinous crimes need some form of punishment that tries to show those who do want to do those types of crimes the ultimate punishment.
The economics though are a different matter. Anyone who is given the death sentence has an automatic appeal, in that and every appeal after that the state is responsible for all costs, that falls on the taxpayer. The convicted gets a free lawyer of his choosing, all DNA testing is paid for, the court costs are paid for, and there are many more costs in the process that can run into the millions. If it goes to the supreme court that will add about a million more to the cost. It can take 10, 20, 30 years before the actual execution takes place. We have had some that were on death row over 40 years and some 30 years that died before their execution date because of old age.
The cost of keeping a convicted person behind bars though is different, while he also gets the ability to appeal only part of that is paid for by the state. On average it costs less than $10 a day to house a prisoner or around $3,650 a year and over the life of even the youngest sentenced to life without parole even to live 60 years will cost taxpayers roughly around $219,000. These costs are based on the state I live in since prisoners work to pay for their stay, the system grows it's own food, and has machine shops that maintain the prisons. Plus they make great license plates.
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Post by lowell on Sept 3, 2015 4:44:54 GMT -6
Yes, it can take so long to wind through all the appeals, that you end up paying to incarcerate them for the majority of their life, plus you have the added expense of the lawyers and courts. If God wants them dead they will die. You might wonder why God wouldn't want them dead. It would be because that person is going to fall into the hell of incessant suffering after they die, and remain there for nearly uncountable aeons of births and deaths of the universe. It is like a father who has a child who has taken poison for which there is no cure. The father won't punish the child, but will try to keep the child alive as long as possible and will try to make the child comfortable.
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