Is death penalty expensive?

Answer 1

Its more expensive than keeping them in jail for the rest of their lives.

Answer 2

The death penality is expensive but so is housing them for the rest of their lives. The reason the death penalty is so expensive is because we give them appeal after appeal, by the time they are executed more than a decade as gone by. The average time on death row is 10 years. Who do you think pays for those appeals? That's right, the tax payer. The justice system is not designed or expected to be perfect. If you put yourself into a situation where you got yourself convicted by a jury of 12 people and then received the death penalty, then you are probaby not a major contributing member of society. As for the cost of housing them and giving them life in prison. It costs on average $70,000 a year and the costs are only climbing each year. So you do the math, you put somebody in prison when they are 30, they might live another 50 years. Whereas someone receives the death penalty and is executed in 10....the math seems pretty simple to me.

Answer 3

It is, and due to appeals and court time its more expensive than life in prison. Most people assume that its cheaper than life. But a huge chunk of their argument is thrown out due to the fact that most death row inmates are in prison for over a decade. The cells that they are in are more expensive to run with a higher guard to prisoner ratio. The appeal process is exhaustive, as it should be. The so called justice system is not perfect, many many death row inmates are on death row with no more evidence than 1 eye witness, NO physical evidence. Try to remember what your bus driver looked like this morning, that's a crappy demonstration that maybe illustrates how flawed eye witness testimony can be. I think its important to have the appeal process to ensure, at least as much as possible, that no one innocent slips through the cracks.

Answer 4

It is, but it doesn't have to be. There is no reason to keep someone on death row for decades while their lawyer tries to find a loophole to get them off the hook.

Saddam was just sentenced to death, and he should be hung by the end of January. Why can't our country work that quickly?

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Answer 5

No it's the appeals, housing, food and clothing and the inmate who is staying on death row for 30 years before they are finally executed!The execution its self is not the expensive part, it's everything else!

Answer 6

Not as expensive and housing, feeding, and clothing them for 50+ years.

Answer 7

it's less expensive than life in prison.

Answer 8

cost of a bullet

Answer 9

sometimes it is