Well, again, studies indicate otherwise. To requote a couple of excerpts from the material I already quoted above:
They're talking about 40 years, not 60. But do the math -- assuming these studies are correct (and I grabbed this quickly off the internet, but there was plenty to choose from offering the same conclusion), 60 years of incarceration does not cost more than execution.
The study is over 16 years old now. Considering health care fo inmates as they get older gets exponentially more expensive, the economy has not gotten better and technology has advanced, I would like to see a newer study.
Of course they do. Yet by paying for an execution, you're spending more of your tax dollars and have less left over to give to the starving people.
Not really. The less people to guard less people on death row means less overhead for the penal system and thus...[shrug] my focus as a taxpayers can be on social services and not providing room, board, health services, entertainment, conjugal visits what have you for convicted murderers.
Also, they have been permanently taken out of society and will
never be a threat to anyone else. Yes, accidents do happen. Serial killers, rapists and child molesters do
accidentally get released from prison. The death sentence puts that possibility to rest.