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[lost_vivacity]

As much as I believe capital punishment is good, as opposed to criminals sitting in prison on tax payers dollars their whole life, i was really glad to read this today:
72 people were released from death row today after a supreme court ruling, disabling capital punishment for all criminals who commited crimes while under the age of eighteen on the

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[pandalovin]

i dont have a definite opinion on capital punishment myself, but i have heard more than once that the execution costs more mony than keeping a prisoner.. but i dont know for how long. i also heard yesterday in my sociology class that it costs $30,000 a year to keep a criminal. so... i dont know. just some random things to contribute. :-)

[mr_sillyputty]

Yeah, it actually costs less to keep a prison for 50 years than to execute him with the electric chair.

[lost_vivacity]

it's about $850,000 for 50 years and on average $2.5 million for an electric chair, which in most states (georgia uses it only) is no longer used because of the case where the man had to be electrocuted three times and still didn't die (does anyone know who he was, i don't remember). Gas chamber is to inhumane because it takes about 11 minutes to kill the person. Lethal injection only costs about $300 for all the differenent medications involved, including Heperdine, Thorazine, and usually Potassium choloride. One of the reasons why it is so much is because of the various costs on investigating and trying a death penalty case. But i think that the actual exceution is cheaper. The whole cost is in trying the case.

[itsfuckingw]

You get oh so many appeals with the death penalty.

[lost_vivacity]

Each death penalty appeal costs 16 times that of a nondeath penalty appeal.

[tigger2sies]

yey finally. thats been my posistion on it all along

[facethe_slayer]

wow, i don't agree with that all..
especially the examples they gave in the paper. if anyone raped and shot my mother six times in the head and left her on a field to rot, i would cut out their kidney and feed it to them. kids our age want so much responsibility so i think they deserve consequences.. i would never want anyone who caused anyone i loved pain, especially death, to ever live a happy life.

[lost_vivacity]

I read those too. But I think that how I am right now is totally different from how I'll be in ten years, that's how it is with just about everyone. Our maturity is ever chaging. We want responsibility but we are not given it ( draft age, drinking age, legal age ), so why do they have the right to take away our lives?

method of execution

[anonymous]

Georgia doesn't use the electric chair anymore - it's now lethal injection:

On October 5, 2001, the Georgia Supreme Court held that the electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment and struck down the state's use of the method

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[lost_vivacity]

You're right. I realized that today. =X