I've heard that argument Kimber. Bunch of hogwash. All the doctors visits,meals,legal fee's,usually from a state paid attourney.And, I'm not including the actual prison costs, due to it would have to be divided up to however many prisoners are in the prison. A dose of drugs,(maybe $50) bullet,($1) or hanging, ($10,but, it can be used many times!) Maybe you can convince a few, but not to many here. gypsyman
Right Gypsyman, that is just an argument used by the anti death penalty crowd to sway public opinion in their favor. They don't tell the whole story behind the costs. The costs they mention are court costs from all the appeals that a convicted person gets.
For instance the kill for thrill murders, that Travaglia and lesko committed over 30 years ago. They shot and dumped a man into a lake, they shot and killed a women who picked them up hitch hiking, they tied a rock to a man and threw him into a lake to drown, and then raced past a local town police officer enticing him to chase them. When the officer walked up to the car they shot and killed him. The jury found them guilty and they were sentenced to die. 30 plus years later they are still alive in jail.
If they had been put to death after their sentence, the cost to tax payers would have been small. Add all the cost of appeals, lawyers, and housing the scum.
A state police officer Tom Tridico who originally testified in the case, has had to testify nine more times, and at 81 years old is still not done.
The cost is high, but to execute them costs very little. A 20 foot length of 3/4 inch manila rope can be had for under 20 bucks.
The same people that think that we shouldn't execute murderers, are the ones that are adamant about and see nothing wrong with killing innocent unborn children. Kind of shows how twisted their thinking is.
