Death Penalty
The Death Penalty is Not the Answer But, what was the question? There are a lot of people who think that the death penalty shouldnt be legal anywhere in the United States. ... Speaking of costs, the anti-death penalty spokes persons argue that it costs too much to execute someone by electrocution, somewhere around $50,000 per criminal. ... Instead of letting the criminal sit around for twenty years on death row going through appeal after appeal, and spending millions of taxpayer dollars, simply give each criminal one appeal, and then the morning after the appellate court upholds the death penalty decision, take the criminal out and hang him from the nearest suitable tree. ... Besides, I think that it would be a very large deterrent to someone contemplating killing or raping an innocent person, knowing that if they were convicted that they would be unconditionally put to death.