Why do we use the lethal syrine in the death penalty...?

Question

When it costs a whole lot of money?
Why not just go back to firing squads?
Only costs 50 cents for a bullet!
If we're going to kill someone for their acts against humanity, just do it!! Stop trying to be so humane! They weren't humane to the people they killed!!!
We're getting WAAAAAYYY too politically correct.

Answer 1

I agree with you, but somehow a bunch of do-gooders decided that a firing squad was "cruel and unusual punishment" and thus, it violated the Constitution.

The funny thing is, I will bet that none of these social crusaders have ever had a close family member victimized by one of these criminals. If they did, they wouldn't be so quick to demand rights for them.

On a side note - did you know that the lethal injection has to be sterile and that they have to swab the needle insertion area just like they do when you go to the doctor? Kind of defeats the purpose, don't you think?

Answer 2

You should know that the death penalty costs much more than life in prison.

The extra costs begin to mount up even before the trial. The cost of lethal execution is a very small part of why the death penalty costs more.

Here are some of the reasons the death penalty costs more:

Pre trial costs are much greater because, once a suspect is caught, the prosecutor must do a separate investigation into the crime, into the suspect himself, that is, does the suspect have mental retardation (if so, he cannot face the death penalty) or severe mental illness (he can face the death penalty). If the prosecutor decides to seek the death penalty, the trial will have two separate phases, one to decide guilt, one to decide the penalty. The process of choosing jurors is much more complicated and takes longer in death penalty cases. (Jurors must be "death qualified.") Many more pre-trial motions are filed by both sides and have to be answered. Prosecution teams use more lawyers, and where the money is available, by the defense as well. Death penalty cases take much longer to try. If the sentence is death, the prisoner will be locked up in a separate prison facility, which is generally much expensive to run and to maintain. It is only at this point that appeals begin as costs continue to mount up.

This is not a matter of political correctness, just practicality.

Answer 3

You're worried about the cost of the shot vs some bullets?? What about the cost of the appeals process?! That along costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for each execution.

Given the recent findings by DNA testing, proving far too many death row inmates are wrongly convicted, I've had a change of heart about the death penalty as it's administered here in the states. Don't get me wrong, I think the butchers of our society should meet as gruesome a death as they dealt to others, but I'll not see one innocent man killed if I can help it.

I think they should instead get life in prison, their entire life, with some sort of work program to compensate for their incarceration. It should be some form of labor the government would pay a contractor for anyway, hopefully back-breaking in nature. This will save the government, thus us taxpayers, even more money. Maybe they could go out into the desert and build the wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

Pay them a dollar an hour for the grueling work, then send their wages to the next-of-kin of their victims...it'll give them a constant sense of satisfaction that justice is being served as they move on with their lives.

Answer 4

if the syringe was not lethal it would not kill and their would not be a death penalty

why not just give the murderer to the family and let them decide what to do with him
such as 20 years slavery and then be tortured to death

Answer 5

You're right. We could kill them with a baseball bat and that would be cheaper yet. How would you like to die?
Thank God we are better than that.

Answer 6

It gets my vote!