The Anonymous Widower

The Cost of the Death Penalty

I have an axe to grind over capital punishment, in that I think it’s wrong.  Well not just wrong, very very wrong.

My main reason is that by taking someone’s life in retribution for something they have done, is just stooping to their level.  We should be more humane than that.  After all, dictators like Hitler were all for capital punishment, so that’s a pretty good reason too.  And what happens with a miscarriage of justice.

But Parade Magazine in the United States has just published an article with a poll about the Death Penalty.  One of the arguments in the article is that the death penalty costs more than life imprisonment.  It is also a bit more convenient, if the judgement was wrong in the first place.

So vote early, often and many times.

January 29, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Death Penalty, Law, United States