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Originally Posted by Lotus
ALL potential death penalty cases require clear and overwhelming evidence. In fact, they require these things at several levels including appeals. That is why they are more expensive. With your argument you just implicitly called for more expensive trials.
Also, it is a $3-4million hit PER CASE. Add 'em up and it gets pretty expensive.
Or we can put folks in maximum security for life. Then they can't hurt anyone any more, you and I as taxpayers save money, and the criminal spends the rest of his life fearing the reality of dropping soap in the shower.
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Not sure what I called for would be most expensive. I mean clear cut as in "they have you on camera/film shooting a person". You admit to killing said person and evidence backs up the testimony. Those types of cases would be cheaper if anything. There is generally no defense to a cases like these.
Well, we spend billions of dollars a year blowing up brown people, so what's a couple million per death penalty? A drop in the bucket. In fact, lets divert some of that defense spending over to executing criminals that deserve it.
I realize it's costly, but it's not 36 billion dollars costly like this man's Ponzi scheme.
Anyway, lets steer this subject back to the Ponzi scheme and how sickening this is that politicians take hand outs from guys like this and don't have to give the money back.