CrAZyBeAuTiFuL4

Where do you think the money comes from to kill these people? From taxpayers. It's cheaper to keep them in jail for life.

Lemons

^ In hell, you pay a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar worse punishment than jail. You burn in hell for all eternity for killing someone. Scott Peterson is truley evil. The way he crys for his wife.. who He killed.. and blames it on everyone but himself.. ugh.. people like him disgust me..

Leonida

And you nor I are god so we cannot judge wether he deserves death.

CrAZyBeAuTiFuL4

If he's a Christian he will go to hell...what if he's not?

Duffyboy

25 Years to life rakes the Prison service well over hundreds of thousands, if not millions per person a year.

10 years death row is far cheaper.

CrAZyBeAuTiFuL4

I did a debate on this a few years ago and no, it's not chaper for execution.

"A 1991 study of the Texas criminal justice system estimated the cost of appealing capital murder at $2,316,655. In contrast, the cost of housing a prisoner in a Texas maximum security prison single cell for 40 years is estimated at $750,000." (Punishment and the Death Penalty, edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum 1995 p.109 )


"Florida calculated that each execution there costs some $3.18 million. If incarceration is estimated to cost $17000/year, a comparable statistic for life in prison of 40 years would be $680,000."
(The Geography of Execution... The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America, Keith Harries and Derral Cheatwood 1997 p.6)

And lastly...
From this; the cost of keeping a 25-year-old inmate for 50 years at present amounts to $805,000. Assuming 75 years as an average life span, the $805,000 figure would be the cost of life in prison. So roughly it's costing us $2 million more to execute someone than it would cost to keep them in jail for life. This is just the dollar cost, the externalities will be discussed in a moment.

Source: http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=cap...rter/econ.html

SweetObScene

I think he is guilty, and this case is taking too long.

Duffyboy

I think he's guilty but mind you it's the same system that got Louise Woodward sent down and OJ Simpson released.

That's why these things usually take so long.

CrAZyBeAuTiFuL4

*nods*

Ignore information that proves you wrong...so predictible

Kattie

Where have you been? It's all over the news.

Basically it is another over-sensationalized crime story.

I just hope justice is served in this case. Scott Peterson is disgusting for cheating on his wife ,but i am unsure if he killed her. Not that i follow the trial anyway.