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Killing them does not have to cost a lot of money. There are cheap ways if they choose to use them. There is pretty much no way to house an inmate in a modern p
by mkramlich 17y ago
Killing them does not have to cost a lot of money. There are cheap ways if they choose to use them. There is pretty much no way to house an inmate in a modern prison for 30+ years cheaply, unless you provided no services, had no guards, etc.
I think the "what if they are innocent" angle is the strongest argument against capital punishment. Not cost.
- RevRal 17y agoI would love to see the single-use Rube Goldberg contraption that costs two million to kill someone. But nien, that is not what your parent meant by saying that it costs a lot to kill someone. It is the process of appeals and prosecution that is expensive. Your last two sentences are ironic in that light.
- mkramlich 17y agoIf they didn't mean that killing someone costs a lot of money then they should not have said it. :) I was simply pointing out that killing can be be done pretty quickly and cheaply -- as cheap and quick as we as a society want. The same goes for whether and how imprisonment is carried out. As with many things in life, there are dials. We can adjust these dials.