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Originally Posted by ShimatheKat
Hanging would have been cheaper. Shooting is a privilege.
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Execution by shooting is usually done by firing a expanding hollow-point bullet into the head. It costs 70 cents to make a bullet like this (a regular 5.56 x 45mm, I heard, costs 45 cents). Fired from a China made Type 76, it would cost $1200.
The entire hanging platform costs $27,000 to build, and a fresh rope is used for every victim. The platform can last for around a few hundred thousand victims.
It really depends on how many people you are killing actually. I would say beheading is still the cheapest, a meat cleaver costs $14 last time I went to the supermarket.
