Is life imprisonment for murderers really worth our millions of tax dollars?

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I'm sure this subject has come up before, but I haven't seen it recently so here goes. What is your take on the death penalty? Do you think it should or should not exist? Why or why not? As for me, I believe that the death penalty should exist and should be the only sentence for a proven guilty murderer. However, I also acknowledge that sometimes innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. I believe this is due to faulty investigations though, and that every investigation into any crime should be proven not only beyond a shadow of a doubt, but additional steps taken to ensure an accurate conviction to minimize and/or eliminate innocent people being convicted. I believe that giving a murderer life imprisonment is too good for them. people talk about human rights, but I believe once you void a person's human rights by killing them, you have voided your own. We are wasting our tax money by feeding, housing, and clothing those types of people. I also believe that letting them sit in prison on death row for 20 years is utterly ridiculous. If they've been convicted of murder, they are a waste of money and resources taht could be going to other things. For example, if we executed the murderers, who as I said have vioded their human rights, we'd have more money to devote to investigations and such to ensure that they really do get the right person. If I could have my way, the same would apply to confirmed rapists as well, but I'd settle for it with murderers. Also, if they put less money and resources to feeding housing and clothing murderers, there'd be more money to help the poverty stricken and those receiving social security benefits due to disability or age or whatever, and all the food that is used to feed them should be used to feed starving children and people who are on the streets. So, as a general rule, I think that murderers should all receive the death penalty and not wait 2 decades to get it, and investigations need to have more resources devoted to them to ensure they are executing the right person. Let the murderers die for their crime!