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Originally Posted by Ithekro
The arguement is, why spend X thousands to millions of dollars on someone who will be in prison for the rest of their life, be it one day or 80 years, rather than spend less and kill them.
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Actually, it's usually more expensive to carry out a death sentence than life imprisonment in many cases, as the mandatory appeals and such often drags out the case for years, sometimes decades, with associated legal/court costs on top of the cost of imprisonment of the convict during those period.
Personally I think the death sentence should be kept around, but there are definite improvements that should be made in the system, especially when you consider the number of deathrow inmates who were eventually exonerated/proved innocent.
For cases like Loughner etc. where there is literally zero doubt on the other hand, a quick trip to the courtyard with a 9mm would be nice.