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It doesn't work as a deterrent and is more expensive than life in prison. My biggest point against it though is would you trust this government with the power to kill you?
The cost of going for a death penalty trial is a lot more expensive to begin with.
This from a cost of death penalty website.
A Seattle University study examining the costs of the death penalty in Washington found that each death penalty case cost an average of $1 million more than a similar case where the death penalty was not sought ($3.07 million, versus $2.01 million). Defense costs were about three times as high in death penalty cases and prosecution costs were as much as four times higher than for non-death penalty cases.
Then you have lengthy appeals which cost a shitload which means the majority of prisoners on death row end up dying in prison of natural courses anyway.
You cant just lynch people these days.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty
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According to figures in the US, cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population.
How many people convicted and sent down for "life" have subsequently had their convictions quashed?
Search Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley, George Kelley....
Suzanne Holdsworth served three years of a life sentence for killing a child..before forensic evidence proved her innocence and she was subsequently released.
The Cardiff docks three, wrongly convicted of the brutal murder of Lynette white would be dead now if the death penalty was in place .....it was an horrific attack , she was mutilated
They were described as a pack of animals
The daily mail had a field day
It turns out they were not even there and were totally innocent
One of the men has now died and the other looks old beyond his years
A shocking miscarriage of justice
Venables is clearly a dangerous man but where , in terms of evidence , do we have a cut off point ?
Even DNA can be planted
It's no deterrent at all
It may bring peace to a family directly affected by a horrible crime but a lot of people have a very warped sense of right and wrong and are just lynch mob types
What's the difference between a gang of drunk lads kicking the crap out of a homeless person .....and him dying of his injuries ......and a paedophile ?
The victims in both cases are vulnerable but people who give someone a kicking wouldn't get more than five years for manslaughter ........if one of my friends became homeless and was kicked to death then surely those that did it are evil ?
And if they are evil they should be hung ?
No , capital punishment is not the answer
The media have done an amazing job in shifting the goal posts towards the right and leading working class people to reducing their own rights.
Look at the reduction in legal aid and the reduction in quality of the NHS. All under our noses and without opposition because people have been lead to believe it's all the fault of immigrants.
I agree but so do wankers who rob elderly people in distraction break ins , someone who glasses a person in a pub fight leading to severe lifelong trauma for the victim etc
He's a dangerous man but child sex offenders are criminals that need to be monitored or locked up and the same goes for street thugs , armed robbers , rapists , blokes who beat up women , etc
He needs to be chemically castrated , asap