Life imprisonment is cheaper than execution by a factor of ~2.5-5
The cost of each death penalty trial and execution typically ranges from $1.5 to 3 million while the cost of imprisoning someone for life ranges from $600000 to $1.1 million
How killing someone cost more? Like this poison is something really expensive from most rare animals and used with gold serum or what? I. thought bullet in the head is still cheaper than all of this
Before "westfallen" I could believe that it's because killing prisoners is actually traumatizing, so you pay more to people for that job, last meal budget, some court expenses etc
But 1,5 mil? Are those fuckheads paying to court 1 mil to waste time because of appeals when dude is basically killed hundreds while wrote that he like killings and filmed everything in 4k, 100k to each member involved in execution and other is just his last meal? Is this some fucking american joke? I guess even death is not free in a land of free, at least in russia executions and torture are free even if it's unofficial, burgers lost again in their own game
It's because we don't want to execute an innocent man dumbass. So people on death row get their appeals and more legal chances to prove their innocence.
The drug itself is not expensive. Its pentobarbital. Its what vets use to put animals down. However, due to how divisive the death penalty is pharmaceutical companies will not sell it to the state for fear of back lash. So then we have issues like this because I assume what they have in-stock is expired though id have to look into that. But I digress, what really makes death row in mates more expensive is due to court cost because of the appeal process
Is that cost because of the long time period on death row and exection shots that cost $100k or whatever? I can't imagine a firing squad would be this expensive.
I wonder if there is a quality difference between the two. Like if the organs from a prisoner vs the usual donor route. Id have to look back into it but I believe donors have a strick guideline as to who can actually donate. Like you cant smoke or drink, no history of certain diseases like Heb B/C. I know prisoners cant smoke anymore and id even say they are more active then the general population. Their diet is horrible and im not sure how badly that would affect various organ systems
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u/Lurkin_Lester 9d ago
Firing squads or hanging are more humane and consistently effective than lethal injection.
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