10-17-2008, 11:50 AM
The cost to keep someone in prison in 1996 was somewhere around $20,000/year (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonindustry.html">http://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex ... ustry.html</a><!-- m -->). Adjusting for inflation at 4%/year, that is $32,000. Inmates who would be considered for the death penalty spend about 30? years in prison (I'm guessing here). That's upwards of almost $1m per prisoner that could be saved by enforcing the death penalty.
Now, my favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemption, so I know full well that innocent men go to prison. However I also know that most prisoners are in fact guilty and many are not remorseful. I say, kill those who are not remorseful, have no desire to live, or have absolutely irreversible evidence against them. Rather than punishing the criminal for his wrongdoings, I'd like to see then wiped clean off the earth.
Now, my favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemption, so I know full well that innocent men go to prison. However I also know that most prisoners are in fact guilty and many are not remorseful. I say, kill those who are not remorseful, have no desire to live, or have absolutely irreversible evidence against them. Rather than punishing the criminal for his wrongdoings, I'd like to see then wiped clean off the earth.
That's what she said.