• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    So about a million dollars, or 5 times cheaper than the median cost of the death penalty.

    The median cost of a death penalty is $1,250,000

    Even without your estimating and looking up the actual numbers — actual cost of lifetime incarceration is 800k, so in real life it’s only twice as expensive to execute someone. Also the equivalent of about 3-4 years salary of a corporate Director or VP

    And that’s not even considering that incarceration has fringe benefits too. Through study, analysis, therapy and statistics we can learn how to prevent tragedy in future — not the case with execution.