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I wasn't thinking of the lethal injection though, I was thinking about good old fashioned hanging; is there even a cost to that beyond paying the hangman? There is no alternative to jail or capital punishment, I just don't think either are a solution to the problems of society - essentially I'm whining :P.

So what if the prisoner feels remorse? It's not going to revive the person they killed/prevent the crime they committed, it's not a comfort to the family of the victim(s) and showing remorse won't claim back the years they spent in jail. It's not even guaranteed that a prisoner is going to regret committing a crime. The primary argument against capital punishment is obviously the potential for a wrongly accused person to be sentenced to death - while you can't argue that that could happen, and has done, I can only help but feel that the only people that this has happened to are people who have made themselves look extremely guilty, or victims of a cover-up/conspiracy - either way, it's just a case of wrong place, wrong time. It's just my view though, I think that capital punishment should be used when dealing with serious cases of violent murder, mass murder and other things on that kind of level.