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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bobke
Ik ook.
Maar ik geloof nu eenmaal niet alles wat men beweert.   |
"Life in prison is cheaper than a penalty of death
Although it is cheaper to inject poisonous chemicals than to keep a person alive his whole life, every study unequivocally finds the death penalty to be far more costly than a life sentence. In spite of incarceration costs being high a death sentence incurs enormous costs at the trial phase. Indeed, more pre-trial time is needed; more pre-trial motions will be filed and answered; more attorneys will be appointed; two trials instead of one will be conducted: one for guilt and one for punishment; the trial will be longer: a cost study at Duke University estimated that death penalty trials take 3 to 5 times longer than typical murder trials and then will come a series of appeals during which the inmates are held in the high security of death row. The only way to make the capital punishment more affordable than imprisonment is to weaken due process and curtail appellate review, which are the only protections against the grossest miscarriages of justice. The savings in dollars would be at the cost of justice."
http://www.ecpm-us.org/getinformed_arguments.shtml#cost
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Is it cheaper to execute murderers than to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives? The answer is no, Smith said. While it costs some $2 million or even more to execute someone on death row, it costs only a few hundred thousand dollars to keep the person in prison for life.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/37/14/2
Het lijkt me op z'n minst twijfelachtig of executeren goedkoper is.