Manuel Viet wrote:
> Le vendredi 24 Novembre 2006 10:44, keith_w a écrit :
>> James N. McBride wrote:
>>> I saw these figures several years ago. In the US it costs an average of
>>> $648,000 to incarcerate a person for life. An execution costs an average
>>> of $1,600,000.
>> Just to terminate the life of a prisoner? Why ever? That seems a bit
>> over the top, doesn't it?
> I bet it includes everything needed to keep the prisonner alive during the
> course of all the trials, up to the supreme court.
>> Hard to imagine how anyone could justify such costs!
> If you were on the wrong side of the bench, I bet you'd think it quite normal
> to be subjected to a complete due process.
Like almost everything else, we need definitions to understand where
that data came from.
"An execution" to me means once the prisoner is legally determined to be
a lost cause and hits death row, until the time he's actually put to death.
Which brings up another consideration ~ how long, on average, does each
condemned prisoner stay on death row? Some stay for a very long time,
filing appeals, one after the other, if they can afford them.
The sentence "An execution costs an average of $1,600,000" means what?
Cost to whom? I'd assume the "state." But maybe not.
Oh well, I'm belaboring the subject, so I'll leave it for now.
Too off topic!
keith whaley
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