For or Against The Death Penalty

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In this country under the current legal system, I am against it. The cost of persuing the death penalty is just too great. Texas, with over 300 people on death row, is spending an estimated $2.3 million per case, but its murder rate remains one of the highest in the country. The investigation costs for death-sentence cases were about 3 times greater than for non-death cases. The trial costs for death cases were about 16 times greater than for non-death cases ($508,000 for death case; $32,000 for non-death case). The appeal costs for death cases were 21 times greater. Trials involving a death sentence averaged 34 days, including jury selection; non-death trials averaged about 9 days. But... The costs of carrying out (i.e. incarceration and/or execution) a death sentence were about half the costs of carrying out a non-death sentence in a comparable case. I think some of the people on death row should fry, but why not let them just rot in jail for the rest of their life and save Millions every year? Take the money saved and put it to good use... at least in a perfect world.