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Quote by: LadiesMan217  The death penalty is most certainly justified in many cases of murder. If you take someone else's life than you forfeit your own and also not to mention the great financial benefit of having to pay $30,000 a year of taxpayer's money for the rest of that person's life while they rot in prison. |
The cost of carrying out the death penalty exceeds the cost of keeping them in prison for life, largely due to the fact that in order to preserve a person's Constitutional rights while taking their life is an incredibly difficult process, as it should be.
Also, you seriously overestimate the cost of keeping someone imprisoned. Federal prisons spend about $21,000 per year, state and local corrections much less.
Annual Determination of Average Cost of Incarceration: Drugwar.com
The death penalty is a useless punishment in that it does not deter crime, does not rehabilitate the offender, and in even a marginally well-run facility is no better at removing the offender from society. It only exists as a way to placate simple-minded people who seek revenge and "satisfaction" against criminal offenders.