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The Death Penalty, strictly a business analysis
Put aside for a minute:
1. The whole "sanctity of Life" issue;
2. The whole "inherent fallibility of the justice system" issue; and
3. The whole "state sanctioned killing" issue.
Put those all aside and lets analyze the death penalty strictly from a cost benefit analysis.
At the trial level, death penalty cases are estimated to generate roughly $470,000 in additional costs to the prosecution and defense over the cost of trying the same case as an aggravated murder without the death penalty and costs of $47,000 to $70,000 for court personnel. In other words, about 1/2 million dollars more to try a death penalty case.
On direct appeal, the cost of appellate defense averages $100,000 more in death penalty cases, than in non-death penalty murder cases.
Personal restraint petitions filed in death penalty cases on average cost an additional$137,000 in public defense costs.
(Report to Washington State Bar Association)
On average, after trial, appeals etc. a death penalty case is about 2 million dollars more expensive than the same case seeking life without parol.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=108
On average, it costs about 32,000 dollars to keep a prisoner in prison for a year.
At $32,000, it would take about 62 years of imprisonment before the cost would equal the cost of a death penalty matter.
The average age of the habitual criminal is 29, with a life expectancy in jail of 69, meaning an average prison stay of 40 years for criminals convicted of life.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE3D91139F930A25756C0A962958260
This means that a life without parol sentence is about $700,000 (22 years X $32,000 per year) cheaper than a death sentence.
Both life in prison without parol and death have the same benefit to society, the murderer is out of circulation.
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7/21/2008, 2:41 pm
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Yep, but don't tell that to the black and white thinking hard core fanatics. They just want them bad guys to FRY! FRY I TELL YA!
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7/21/2008, 2:42 pm
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so, in effect, win/win. i agree, totally. but even if it cost more, i would still be against the state having the right to murder people.
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llovejim wrote:
so, in effect, win/win. i agree, totally. but even if it cost more, i would still be against the state having the right to murder people.
I SAID you have to put that aside, didn't I dammit? My thread my rules. 
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7/21/2008, 2:45 pm
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To my mind, the death penalty is the price assigned by society for the commission of certain crimes.
Similar to if you walk into a China shop, break one of the plates on display and the proprietor says, "You break it, you bought it."
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Yeah, but I personally, from a fiscal standpoint, would rather pay the cheaper price to achieve the same goal. Why pay more if you don't have to?
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I think going to jail for life under miserable conditions for killing someone is pretty much the same as "you break it, you bought it."
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using the term
state have the right to murder people
shows that all your other arguments will be fallacious as well
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using the term
state have the right to murder people
shows that all your other arguments will be fallacious as well
I didn't use that term. Nice try.
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All this is well and good, but how much did Janet's exposed booby cost the legal system? 
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