Jack M. Hoff:  1661 days ago

They should give the stabber time off for good behavior.

kim suck:  1661 days ago

the best news i've heard--with he stabed him in the balls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rip that nut sack wide open!!!!

bloodyhell:  1661 days ago

It's only more expensive to execute a murderer because of the long appeals process. Cut that down and we'd save some money until they fry. Oh, wait, that's too cruel these days. Now they're given a sedative before they're humanely put to sleep...unlike their victims who died in agony with thoughts of their loved ones running through their soon-to-be-snuffed memories.

tightwad:  1661 days ago

he gets to eat?

trainman66:  1661 days ago

wha should have happened is the bastard getting his neck snapped and die from severe internal bleeding, much like the doctors family killers,the two of them should be slowly and PAINFULLY tortured to where they feel the intense pain of what the women suffered.

hopeless pedant:  1661 days ago

Yes, let's execute some innocent people, that's what America stands for.
The exhaustive appeal process has allowed for new evidence (particularly DNA) to exonerate many people sentenced to die. The alternative is that we are careless and kill those who aren't guilty.
That is barbaric and not something any thinking, decent human being would approve of, particularly when the alternative is life imprisonment and never returning to the outside world.

Wicked:  1661 days ago

Man, you people are cruel and sound evil yourselves. Don't you understand that you are what you think all.day.long? Get a friggin life.

Petite:  1661 days ago

Posted at 12:20PM on Jul 28th 2007 by seanflynn
It is more expensive to taxpayers to execute someone than to have him get a life sentence. Far, far more expensive.
And life imprisonment is a horrible sentence as well - don't doubt that for a minute.
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THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THAT'S TRUE.
You take him off the face of the earth, and we no longer pay for him to live. How id execution more expensive than that???

You are seriously going to have to provide US ALL with proof of this comment, because I beg to differ your point.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be slut-whores:  1661 days ago

"Man, you people are cruel and sound evil yourselves. Don't you understand that you are what you think all.day.long? Get a friggin life."

Ohhh, a "friggin life." Yum. That sounds kinda naughty and kinda fun.

I'll take two, please!

seanflynn:  1661 days ago

Here you go:

The Economics of Capital Punishment



Contention:
Sentencing a prisoner to life in prison is a better allocation of resources than sentencing him to be executed.

First I'll present figures representing the dollar costs of capital punishment versus life in prison/no parole. Then I'll discuss the deterrent effect as the only legitimate rational justification for capital punishment. Then I'll discuss the externalities of capital punishment.

A Duke University study found... "The death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of imprisonment for life." ( The costs of processing murder cases in North Carolina / Philip J. Cook, Donna B. Slawson ; with the assistance of Lori A. Gries. [Durham, NC] : Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, 1993.)

"The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total is incurred at the trial level." (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988).

"A 1991 study of the Texas criminal justice system estimated the cost of appealing capital murder at $2,316,655. In contrast, the cost of housing a prisoner in a Texas maximum security prison single cell for 40 years is estimated at $750,000." (Punishment and the Death Penalty, edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum 1995 p.109 )

"Florida spent an estimated $57 million on the death penalty from 1973 to 1988 to achieve 18 executions - that is an average of $3.2 million per execution."
(Miami Herald, July 10, 1988).

"Florida calculated that each execution there costs some $3.18 million. If incarceration is estimated to cost $17000/year, a comparable statistic for life in prison of 40 years would be $680,000."
(The Geography of Execution... The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America, Keith Harries and Derral Cheatwood 1997 p.6)

Figures from the General Accounting Office are close to these results. Total annual costs for all U.S. Prisons, State and Federal, was $17.7 billion in 1994 along with a total prison population of 1.1 million inmates. That amounts to $16100 per inmate/year.
(GOA report and testimony FY-97 GGD-97-15 )

From this; the cost of keeping a 25-year-old inmate for 50 years at present amounts to $805,000. Assuming 75 years as an average life span, the $805,000 figure would be the cost of life in prison. So roughly it's costing us $2 million more to execute someone than it would cost to keep them in jail for life. This is just the dollar cost, the externalities will be discussed in a moment.

Sean Bresnahan:  1661 days ago

Seanflynn...I think she lived on North Sweetzer.

murph:  1661 days ago

I agree with Number 10 wholeheartedly, well said!

put them all in jail!!:  1661 days ago

What can I say? The system works!

Nickers:  1661 days ago

Too bad he didn't die!

TJ:  1661 days ago

6. His state must not have had the death penality. Here in Texas, he would have swung! We like the death penality here, and you can count on that never changing.

Posted at 12:12PM on Jul 28th 2007 by Petite
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Your death penalty which is supposed to be a deterrent to crime doesn't seem to work. Last time I looked your prisons were overflowing and crime was still rampant. What's the point?? The state is allowed to legally kill people while saying it is wrong to kill??? The bible says thou shalt not kill...which applies to everyone including the very officials who condemn killing. Double standard don't you think?