Hanging, Gas Chamber, Firing Squad, Electrocution, or Lethal Injection? It looks as if the firing squad would be the cheapest, as it would only require the use of 4-5 rifles and a few bullets compared with the medical equipment required for a lethal injection.
2006-09-29 16:47:50 · 8 answers · asked by Chuck Dhue 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
All forms of capital punishment are monitarily more expensive than life in prison due to the guarnteed rights of the accused that require access to appeals which require appointment of counsel.
2006-09-29 17:24:19 · answer #1 · answered by Mos 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I strongly suspect that the actual carrying out of the execution is the least expensive of the whole ridiculous process.
First we have to convict the dirt bag. Then we have a second penalty phase. Then we incarcerate him. Then we process appeal after appeal after appeal for years while he sits on death row with free meals, free shelter, free medical care and free legal council.
All the while the victim's loved ones mourn the horrific loss.
2006-09-29 17:00:46 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Public stoning.
On pay per view you charge $9.99 to view the public stoning of all Rapists, Murders, and Molestors. Then you charge $100 a stone (family memebers get 5 for free) and have them run the guantlet. They have to wear a head cage and a groin cage. Anybody who makes it thru 3 runnings gets put in for the "Superbowl Half Time Show" where the winner gets a free ticket to any place but here.
It would vitually elimante our taxes for prison and prisoner rehab.
2006-09-29 17:04:05 · answer #3 · answered by Boredstiff 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No the cheapest would be to leave the criminal in a locked room with the victims family and their bare hands. Then all they'd have to do is pay for clean up services.
2006-09-29 16:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the forms of capital punishment you listed would be relatively cheap, if we eliminated the years worth of various appeals.
2006-09-29 17:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by jack jr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a bullet in the head
2006-09-29 16:55:22 · answer #6 · answered by Jaded_ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.22 caliber in the ear, swift, sure and deadly
2006-09-30 07:07:29 · answer #7 · answered by rmagedon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beaten to death by a guard or shanked by fellow prisoner. yay!
2006-09-29 16:53:58 · answer #8 · answered by soulsearcher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋