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From: "keith_w" <keith_w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:44 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: English grammar
> 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?
For one thing, there are all the appeals that they have to go through, and
that takes 10 to 15 years so there is the cost of incarceration for that
period of time, in high security lock up.
Paul in Portland OR
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