[Stu]

Originally Posted by Zee

What does it achieve though? If you're going to lock someone up for life, i.e. until they die, why not just kill them anyway? That's on the more than likely assumption that if they're in jail for life, they committed a very serious crime. I don't think jail OR capital punishment are the answer to society's problems, but I'd rather see somebody killed for committing a serious crime, rather than being a drain on taxpayers' money by being accommodated in jail for the rest of their life.

People make assumptions that because Capital Punishment is quick it must be cheap. It's not. It's at least as expensive, if not more, than housing a prisoner in a cell and giving him three meals a day for the rest of his life.

Have you any idea even what the medical personnel who are giving him the injection have to be paid? Or the price of commissioning such an injection? Or all the legal red tape that has to be bypassed? Besides, like I said earlier, it costs far, far, far more to keep certain inmates in jail.

And to be honest, I think the rational you outlined in the first sentence is very odd. I know they done bad things, and I am not an apologist for them, but you cant throw them into a black hole like rats and forget they ever existed. Locking him up might at the least achieve some revelation and sufferance in his mind. Hanging him will just quench the public and the medias thirst to see even more blood to feel some retribution.