Six murdered near Seattle

I'm surprised that the officers that initially responded didn't immediately go into standoff mode. One thing I learned in my years living in Seattle: the police in the Pacific NW love a good 10+ hour standoff.

 

Not to mention the broadcast media with the choppers.

 

Asinine statement, I think.
Explain how it costs more to execute them that to house them for a lifetime.

 

Every study ever done on the death penalty contains that fact. That you don't know that means you are rather uninformed.

 

Teams of government-paid lawyers being fed to the defendant's side is what makes those cases run so expensive.

The actual act of putting someone to death is not the expense, it's the lawyering that does it.

 

The extra levels of security also make it more expensive. It's not just the lawyering, as much as some would like it to be.

 

The security still would be there for high-profile criminals. Even without death row, they probably aren't putting Ted Bundy in with the general prison population.

 

Not all death row inmates are Ted Bundy.

 

Yes, but death-row inmates often have been convicted of high-profile murders. Even without killing them, there still is a security risk to the prison.

 

Not nearly as often as you seem to think, Wick. A lot of guys with the death penalty were convicted in much more mundane cases.

 

Funny, I don't FEEL uninformed.
Especially the more time I spend with condescending members of this community.

I'm talking about reforming the WHOLE system.
Where it wouldn't cost as much to go through a proper appeals process.
We need to clean alot of the fat from the system, and I assure you it wouldn't cost as much to house someone for a lifetime as it would to kill them.
The U.S. is just too politically-correct to adopt the death penalty as a status-quo thing.
Too many folks have badgered for, and gotten, rights in this country.

 

Yes, but What Would Hed Bust Do?