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Originally Posted by bronco67
Here's a great video (very educational) breaking down the execution drug debacle that's been going on lately.
If this latest botched execution involved some pain for the prisoner, I'm not feeling too bad about it -- especially when you see the guy's crimes. But we have to appear "humane" when we carry out these things. A bullet to the head would be more reliable-- and a hell of a lot cheaper. But we like to fool ourselves into thinking we're doing something better by injecting drugs into someone.
and there's never been a criminal who thought about the death penalty before committing his crime. So I'm against it not because I have any sympathy for the executed, but it's a giant waste of money, and mostly theater.
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Here's a list of USA executions for 2013 and it goes back to 1976 (death penalty ruled constitutional again)
http://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa/date/2013.htm
Tell me how much it cost to execute 1359 people since 1976.
Then subtract the cost of them living in prison for decades instead of being executed.
If you don't know how much it cost then where did you get the argument that it cost so much?
The cost is not enough to even care is how I see it.
Some people don't want to spend money to kill criminals but then they sign over $3.5 Billion a year to Israel to buy weapons that kill people.
