re: #198 ggt
The thing is that in this country it costs more to kill a person than to incarcerate then for life in many cases. One reason . . because lawyers for life-rights groups get involved and repeal, repeal, repeal.
Remember we only hear about the cases that are the exception—the ones where they got it wrong. We are paying to keep a lot of monsters in cages.
I just can’t believe Death Penalty is any kind of significant deterrent. The number of case where the penalty actually stopped a crime, I don’t think, can be measured. Because, then, the crime never happens. Am I thinking right?