[Shawnee123]

Also, death row inmates don't usually participate in the work assignments that help defer the cost of prison.

So many reasons it costs SO much more to put someone to death than to incarcerate them until they die. BUT, I don't think it's ok to say "meh, one or two mistakes here and there. Gee, sorry."

Abolish the death penalty. Think what it will save the courts and the prison systems. It's never worked as a deterrent (the typical "crime of passion" killer or psychopath doesn't think about the death penalty when killing...gee, I'd love to go all crazy and murderous right now but let me weigh the pros and cons.)

If something happened to someone I love (and it did, and he got away with murder) I would want revenge, but I would want it to be a revenge that lived with them, literally, for the rest of their life. Death is only an easy way out for them.

(here is where UG tells me I should be ashamed. Funnily enough, I'm not.)

And howdy Bruce!