the cost of killing someone is about just as high as keeping someone in prison for a lifetime in your country?
2006-08-17 06:36:02 · 10 answers · asked by 42 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
The actual process of carrying out the death penalty is relatively cheap. However the convicted person is kept in prison till the mandatory appeals process takes place - and that may last a decade or more. That is the expensive part.
2006-08-17 16:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by carl l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cost of killing some one is quite high. If you get into it all, after allowing them to set on death row for 20+ years, then yes it gets up to the millions. And actually killing them is a lot of money too.
Life sentences certainly keep criminals off the streets. But, as decades pass and prisoners grow more mature and less violent, does the cost of keeping them locked up justify what may be a diminishing benefit in public safety? By a conservative estimate, it costs $3 billion a year to house America's lifers. And as prisoners age, their medical care can become very expensive.
At the same time, studies show, most prisoners become markedly less violent as they grow older.
2006-08-17 14:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by dlfoster67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it will be a little less expensive. For someone to get put to death, they will have to apply and wait for their appeals to be used up and it could take a couple of years just for one of them to be heard by the courts. As an example, if someone get the death penalty, they could spend 10-15 years, at the minimum, exhausting the appellate court with motions for reversal of the decision. Then after that, a couple of years for the "death day" to come up. I'm not sure about the cost but I think it is somewhere between $15,000-$30,000 per year to house an inmate on death row. Even in what I guessed, it could be more.
2006-08-17 13:47:54 · answer #3 · answered by brittme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's actually cheaper to kill someone then keep them alive. The costs come from court appeals, but never reach a lifetime of shelter and food for an inmate.
2006-08-17 13:41:52 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To the best of my knowledge, the death penalty is cheaper. But the death penalty isn't often used.
2006-08-17 14:51:10 · answer #5 · answered by ☼Grace☼ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Its higher due mainly to the cost of endless appeals by ACLU and other political action groups.
2006-08-17 13:48:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is due to the liberals who delay executions..
Too bad our law enforcement & judicial has such a
bad record with convicting innocent people or this
would not be necessary...
There are people who honestly need to be executed
right after conviction...
Nothing is perfect..
2006-08-17 13:55:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nah,I think it's cheaper to kill them,unless were being overcharged for the lethal injection...here inTexas,we have a high execution rate..
2006-08-17 13:42:29 · answer #8 · answered by crystal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's about right. We coddle them for years and then let them die in their sleep.
2006-08-17 13:42:30 · answer #9 · answered by BobbyD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
killing people is cheaper
2006-08-20 19:42:58 · answer #10 · answered by mini prophet of fubar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋