Originally Posted by ReGGs

This argument would make sense if it didn't cost INFINITELY more to execute them than it does to lock them up for life. Guess what. Execution costs more.

""The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate. With California's current death row population of 670, that accounts for $63.3 million annually.""

http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=42

And that is just California. Most states have people rotting in jails for years now waiting to get a fair trial because the states are broke and can't afford to defend them. Plain and simple the death penalty is immoral, ineffective, and costs much more than imprisoning someone for life.