Re: House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!! Archived Message
Posted by tris on December 3, 2010, 5:26 am, in reply to "Re: House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!!"
It's not fair to me, to pay for people, who should and/or will spend the the rest of lives, in a cage (at my expense.) The fairness of executing convicted killers versus keeping people in prison living off your dime? Actually, it's more costly to the taxpayers to execute someone than to imprison them for life. I've heard this statistic for many years, but here's one source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29552692/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ According to another source: "In 1989, the state of Florida executed 42-year-old Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to 28 murders in four states. During his nine years on death row, he received three stays of execution. Before he was put to death in the electric chair, Bundy cost taxpayers more than $5 million." FOR SOMEONE WHO CONFESSED TO 28 MURDERS. (That source: http://law.jrank.org/pages/5002/Capital-Punishment-COSTS-CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT.html So that is actually an invalid argument. We have the fairest court system in the world. The statistical probability of an innocent man, Being put to death, for any crime, is less likely, than God is to strike someone dead. This especially rings true if the death penalty is abolished. I certainly hope if you're accused of a crime, you come out of the whole process with the same appreciation you have right now. Hopefully you don't get falsely accused of a capital crime. I also hope that if I ever get accused of a capital crime, the people in charge of sentencing me don't equate my human life to that of a dog. I assume by that comment that you're also pro-choice?
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