reply to post by jam321
OH heavens Jam. That is not a visual I needed!
Though I would never to to that guys' haunted house, that is for sure.
Seriously.
There is a slight possibility here, and I know I will get booed offstage. That he does feel remorseful. And the details of trials and havin to face
the evident may be stressful for him. And he is trying to pluck the images of his dead family from his head. People have been known to do that too.
I dunno, I think I would rather face the injection then dig my own eye out.
Problem is that he is in Texas too, the most pro capital punishment state. They have the system streamlined, and usually are not very empathetic.
If you want to get out of capital punishment, don't do your deed in Texas.
FYI folks:
It costs more to commit an execution then to keep a prisoner for life.
Between paperwork, appeals, and everything else. The state ends up paying more for capital punishment.
The Costs of Capital Punishment
The actual execution of an inmate is quick and simple; the capital punishment system is far more complex. To resolve issues of unconstitutionality
that the Supreme Court found in FURMAN V. GEORGIA, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S. Ct. 2726, 33 L. Ed. 2d 346 (1972), states found it necessary to introduce a
complex appeals process that would guarantee the rights of death row inmates. Capital trials are much more expensive to carry out than are their
noncapital counterparts because of the price at stake, the life of the accused. Evidence gathering is also more expensive: evidence must be collected
not only to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused but also to support or contradict a sentence of death. All sentences of death face a
mandatory review by the state supreme court, at an additional cost of at least $70,000. If a case advances further in the state or federal appeals
process, the costs are likely to jump to $275,000 or more for each appeal.
Appeals of a death sentence guarantee great expense to the taxpayer, as the state pays both to defend and to prosecute death row inmates. Public
defenders in such appeals openly admit that their goal is delay, and prosecutors and state attorneys slow the process by fighting access to public
records and allowing death row defendants to sweat out their cases until the last minute.
According to a 1990 study, the total cost to build a maximum-security prison cell is $63,000, which breaks down to approximately $5,000 a year in
principal and interest. The annual cost to maintain an inmate in this cell is approximately $20,000 a year. Together, these costs mean an annual
expenditure of $25,000 to incarcerate an inmate. Based on a sentence term of 40 to 45 years, one inmate would cost the taxpayer only slightly more
than $1 million—less than a third of what it would take to pay for the process that culminates in execution. A twenty-five-year-old woman convicted
of first-degree murder would need to serve a life term to the age of 145 before the costs of incarcerating her would surpass those of executing
her.
[edit on 9-1-2009 by nixie_nox]
-- I need sleep i think!
