10.21.09
I’m Right…The New Study “Proves” It
I’ve written about this before. I think …well I know I have been right all along…I think that the dealth penalty is dumb. It’s expensive and think about it, more people are going to jail than ever because it’s not a deterent like it once might have been.
So the story that popped on Tuesday about a report conducted by the Death Penalty Research Center seems to reveal that my notion of “it doesn’t work and it’s expensive” may have been correct. Too bad they had to spend money to find out what we (at least I) already new.
Like my drunk driving nephew (read yesterday) it’s really hard to deter stupidity. Some people will always be bad…and there are always good ones. But the bad actions of some shouldn’t have to be such a financial burden on the good folks.
Now granted, the Death Penalty Research Center is just a tad left of center and doesn’t seem to like the concept of the dealth penalty on some moral grounds…but they and I agree…killing criminals is just too expensive. They might think of expense is in moral terms…I’m much more Republican in my view of things from a practical dollar and sense sort of way. Weird to hear a conservative(ish) person talk about giving up the death penalty isn’t it?
The report reveals that it costs the State of Florida $24 million PER execution. It also states that those States with death penalty laws spend an additional $10 million each ayear that they wouldn’t have had to spend if the penalty was more simply…”Goodbye, have a wonderful life time of boredom in prison…ta ta dude (or dudette).”
I know that some of the horrific things people do really makes one want to retaliate. But acting like an animal doesn’t solve the issue…killing folks for killing folks just costs money…take the money and help educate people in schools…but don’t let the loser out…EVER. Don’t go mealy mouth like Scotland and let criminals off the life sentence because they get sick…THEY WERE SICK to start with. Don’t let them out early because of “good behavior”…what about their bad behavior? We don’t need to support the lawyers by dragging criminals back to court to argue about the death penalty…slam the door on the idiots who can’t behave and call it a day (or a lifetime) and move on.
Nothing like statistics that can be used to make one’s point…in this case…mine. Don’t use them against me…I don’t want to hear it…all I want to hear is the tinkling of the keys to the cells being thrown down the drains.
