[Rotting Eye]

Originally posted by Je Suis Phnomne
Life in prison = MORE tax money taken out of my hard earned money to give a criminal the things that I pay a great deal for each and every month while making an honest living...

That statement is not true. Through all the appeal processes capital punishment cases usually run to cost more than $2 million dollars, while to keep someone in a cell in a maximum security cell for 40 years it costs $750,000 to $1 million. Either way tax payers have to pay for it.

I read that it costs in California average of six times more to kill someone, than to keep them in jail. It could have saved tax payers $90 million.

Not only does it cost more money, people who are innocent get put to death. Over 87 people have been released from death row after being wrongly accused, and over 23 people have been wrongly put to death. One of each was too many.

Spending the rest of your life in a maximum security prison, (example: sitting in a cell for more than half a day, being outside for less than an hour, etc etc) is far more agonizing that being put to death would ever be. Death is a release for people with life sentances without possibility of parole. I was watching the History Channel, or A&E, or something like that, when a prison special came on and one inmate said, "Being in here is the worst feeling ever. See that mountain outside my window? I know I'm never going to see the other side of it." Prison sucks, plain and simple.