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Death Penalty debate
smerlus:
--- Quote from: Jay ay Beee on June 23, 2004, 08:30:24 AM ---For everyone who is pro death penalty and uses that crappy "burden to the taxpayer" excuse as to why we should take a life away, look at this:
Financial Facts About the Death Penalty
$ Kansas Study Concludes Death Penalty is Costly Policy
In its review of death penalty expenses, the State of Kansas concluded that capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-death penalty cases. The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The costs of appeals were 29% of the total expense, and the incarceration and execution costs accounted for the remaining 22%. In comparison to non-death penalty cases, the following findings were revealed:
The investigation costs for death-sentence cases were about 3 times greater than for non-death cases.
The trial costs for death cases were about 16 times greater than for non-death cases ($508,000 for death case; $32,000 for non-death case).
The appeal costs for death cases were 21 times greater.
The costs of carrying out an execution (including death row incarceration) were about half the costs of carrying out a non-death sentence in a comparable case.
Trials involving a death sentence averaged 34 days, including jury selection; non-death trials averaged about 9 days.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=108&scid=7
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i've been saying this since the Tray Deee thread...some people don't listen though
Javier:
yea u get TV, Gyms, etc etc. but no inmate is there for the whole day! its like what . one hour to two hours? then ur back in ur cell. How can prison be comfortable...ur not free.
back in the late 90s...there was 25 cases studied from Illionois i believe...and out of those 25 cases , 13 ended up being innocent. Left and right i see cases about people that have been in death row for more than 10 years and they end up being innocent. Why? Because people are in such a hurry that they wanna put the first person they think its guilty to death so they can have immediate healing. If they only studied 25 cases at that certain time...imagine how many more innocent people are on death row right now at this very moment. Thats just fucken wrong.
Montana00:
there not always innocent, sometimes they can sneak by the cracks of our judicial system.
Don Rizzle:
and sometimes ur judicial system is fucked and frame innocent ppl
7even:
--- Quote from: rampant on June 23, 2004, 09:59:23 PM ---there not always innocent, sometimes they can sneak by the cracks of our judicial system.
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what's the deal with writing 'there' instead of 'they're' ??? no offense, but I see it all the time and it makes me wonder..
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