[nky]

I dont see why it should cost more money to end someone than to keep them up for 20 plus years.. That doesn't make sense.

Sounds like a lot of bs to me.

I am all for the death penalty and in fact it should be used more.

This figure includes the multiple automatic appeals a death penalty case gets (about $1.5 million per trial) plus seperate smaller housing unit in prison.

It cost KY about $26000 to house an average prison per year. On a cost based look it is cheaper to put someone away for the rest of their life vs. using the death penalty.

Is the death penty a deterant? I don't think so how many criminals say I'm not going to ________ because I'm going to get the death penalty.

Personally I like the idea of life without a chance of getting out. Image living in the general population for 50 or 60 years how much more punishment is that. Or if you did something horrible there aalways is prison justice (see Jeffery Dalmer for evidence)