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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Ask a man with $3 Mil if he would spend $2 Mil to kill the person who raped and killed his daughter.
He'd pay it right?
So what's wrong with people like me and you helping him out and paying it for him and people like currently sober who can't afford to kill?
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If we are going to look at it those terms lets do it this way. Every time they want to put someone to death they send a bill out to people and you have send them a check back. For every person who either can't afford to pay the amount or is against the death penalty their amount will be tacked on to everyone else's bills.
When you start to crunch the numbers in likely wouldn't be that much per person (likely less than $100 per year depending on how many people would willingly pay. If states wanted to do that and they found enough people who were willing to pay the costs so it wasn't passed on to every tax payer, I wouldn't have a problem with it so long as due process was still diligently maintained.
My opposing the death penalty is mostly of of cost and practicality. It doesn't work as a deterrent, it is expensive and sometimes we get it wrong, but if a group of people were willing to pick up the tab and we still made sure that we did the best possible job to make sure we were killing a guilty person, I would be fine with it.