| The death penalty is only exercised in the most extreme of cases, and even then, inmates are kept on death row for anywhere from 10 to 20 years or more before being executed.
I have no problem with the death penalty personally, because I would rather see that child molester or serial killer get the penalty than have my tax dollars go to providing them with television, air-conditioning and general living for the rest of their not-so-miserable life. We already have enough people on the welfare system, why do we have to siphon off even more tax dollars to keep people like Charles Manson alive in Corcoran Prison, living decently at that? People who never will be beneficial to society or a part of it again in the first place?
Besides, their deaths are humane (death by electric chair is no longer given by courts, only death by lethal injection), which is more courtesy than they treated their victims with, I am sure.
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