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We seem to be the only highly industrialized country that HASNT abolished the death penalty.

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Reply:That and Hawaii is missing.
Reply:So
Reply:i agree with you that the death penalty should be abolished. but you have no support other than you're opinion, and this isn't a question





P.S. and are you telling me China and Japan are not highly industrialized? wow.
Reply:They forgot hawaii





they relly did
Reply:Well, us and Mongolia.





P.S. I agree. One innocent person executed is too many. But unfortunately, in America, we have to choose between the death penalty and letting murderers out on parole. It's a hard choice to make, but given those two, I choose the death penalty.
Reply:OMG dont remind me of how much i hate this country
Reply:The problem lies with Europe.





Most criminals repeat their crimes. Releasing a murderer from prison puts everyone else in society at risk. It doesn't eliminate the death penalty. It just shifts it from the guilty to the innocent.





Confining a murderer to prison for their entire life diverts resources away from hospitals and medical research.* That inevitably leads to the death of innocents. Again, we have only shifted the death penalty onto innocents. We have not eliminated it.





In a world with limited resources, death is inevitable. But it should be the guilty who die, not the innocent. Eliminating the death penalty is sheer stupidity and completely immoral.
Reply:They should keep the death penalty for those that don't change and for the ones that make changes like Tucker did, they should give them a chance to prove themselves.
Reply:The United States has also ranked 5th or 6th in the number of executions carried out. The others at the top of the list include China, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq.





One of the answers (from scifiguy) is mistaken on costs. The death penalty is so expensive because of the upfront costs of the legal process, which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people. (upfront=before and during the initial trial.)





Here are excerpts from reports from a couple of individual states. (Reports from other states are similar).





Washington State “At the trial level, death penalty cases are estimated to generate roughly $470,000 in additional costs to the prosecution and defense over the cost of trying the same case as an aggravated murder without the death penalty and costs of $47,000 to $70,000 for court personnel.” (Final Report of the Death Penalty Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Defense, Washington State Bar Association, December 2006-


http://www.wsba.org/lawyers/groups/commi...





Kansas: “The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. 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).” - Kansas: Performance Audit Report: Costs Incurred for Death Penalty Cases: A K-GOAL Audit of the Department of Corrections