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Category: Odd + Funny Author : Duncan Riley Posted: March 8, 2009
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Death Penalty on the way out in the United States…due to cost


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While the death penalty has been long off the books in much of the civilized world, the United States has for the most part continued the practice. Well, before the recession that is.

The death penalty is slowly being abolished in the United States due not to any moral opposition, but due to simple economics: it’s actually cheaper to jail a man for life then stick a needle in his arm. The cost comes not from the actual death itself, but the appeals process, which can sometimes drag on for 20 years or even longer. Lawyers love it, but it’s nearly as unhealthy for State coffers as it is the condemned man.

New Jersey has already dropped the death penalty, and Colorado and Kansas are currently debating similar legislation. In other jurisdictions such as New Mexico, the death penalty remains on the books, but is effectively dead as prosecutors no longer have the financial support to pursue death penalty cases.

(Chicago Tribune)











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3 Archived Responses to “ Death Penalty on the way out in the United States…due to cost ”

  1. peter tamai
    Mar 9, 2009

    You guy REALLY KNOW HOW TO GET AHEAD OF YOURSELVES.

    Death Penalty abolition in the United States?

    NOT IN YOUR LIFETIME.

  2. Dick
    Jun 9, 2009

    The corrupt legal system is totally driven by greed. The legal prostitutes (lawyers) do and say anything for money. The judges (ex-prostitutes) are just playing the legal game – again for a lot of money. The only way to make the legal system just and effective, is to kick the lawyers out of the courtroom and educate the judges separately from lawyers after a thorough personality and intelligence test.
    Lawyers being able to become judges has totally and irrevocably corrupted the legal process.

  3. Anonymous
    Jul 18, 2011

    If lawyers shouldn't be made in to judges? Who do you suggest should do the job? Who would have the right credentials? Law professors, teach law. I doubt that these professors, want the resonsibility of sending criminals to jail. Are you the type of person who believes, that everyone is automatically guilty if they are arrested? I get the feeling that you are. Excepting yourself, obviously!