In the United States, having more inmates means more taxes from citizens. Now, if you abolish private prisons (which many people support), then who's willing to pay more money out of their pocket so the government can hold more prisoners? It's a matter of cost. The death penalty abolishes the need to cause many citizens financial harm, and the death penalty helps deter greater crimes.
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Originally Posted by Enclave
In the United States, having more inmates means more taxes from citizens. Now, if you abolish private prisons (which many people support), then who's willing to pay more money out of their pocket so the government can hold more prisoners? It's a matter of cost. The death penalty abolishes the need to cause many citizens financial harm, and the death penalty helps deter greater crimes.
overall this makes sense, I still have to think a bit more about it though. But:
Originally Posted by Enclave
[...]the death penalty helps deter greater crimes.
Doesn't rehabilitation/treatment of inmates makes them more likely to go back live a functional life, lowering the chance of recidivism? It can be beneficial in the long run.
Another point is that most criminals aren't afraid of consequences. They don't believe they will get caught.
Also, according to this:
According to the National Academy of Sciences, "Research on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is uninformative about whether capital punishment increases, decreases, or has no effect on homicide rates."
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Originally Posted by Enclave
In the United States, having more inmates means more taxes from citizens. Now, if you abolish private prisons (which many people support), then who's willing to pay more money out of their pocket so the government can hold more prisoners? It's a matter of cost. The death penalty abolishes the need to cause many citizens financial harm, and the death penalty helps deter greater crimes.
That's a really good point, but killing a really tiny percentage on the death row will not make US citizens pay significantly less.
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Originally Posted by Enclave
In the United States, having more inmates means more taxes from citizens. Now, if you abolish private prisons (which many people support), then who's willing to pay more money out of their pocket so the government can hold more prisoners? It's a matter of cost. The death penalty abolishes the need to cause many citizens financial harm, and the death penalty helps deter greater crimes.
human life > money
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Originally Posted by Enclave
In the United States, having more inmates means more taxes from citizens. Now, if you abolish private prisons (which many people support), then who's willing to pay more money out of their pocket so the government can hold more prisoners? It's a matter of cost. The death penalty abolishes the need to cause many citizens financial harm, and the death penalty helps deter greater crimes.
Strangely, it actually costs the state more money to execute a prisoner than it does to keep them in prison. Death row inmates are guaranteed a very long and thorough judicial process by the constitution to minimise the chance of a wrongful execution, and these processes typically involve the most experienced and expensive lawyers and frequently use a lot of DNA testing, which is very expensive.
Many death row inmates also remain on death row for decades during this extended trial and appeal process, spending most of their time in special buildings separated from other prison populations, which require additional upkeep and more guards. In Texas for example, it costs an average of 2.3 million dollars - this is about 3 times more than is would cost to imprison someone in a maximum security prison for 40 years. It varies from state to state, but in every case it is more expensive to execute someone than it is to give them life in prison. In Maryland it costs an average of $3 million ($1.9 million more than it would cost to incarcerate them for life without parole), and in Pennsylvania this website suggests they've spent $350 million on the death penalty over a period of time where only 3 inmates actually ended up being executed.
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