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Published: 27.01.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Capital Punishment', 1.
  • Essays 'Capital Punishment', 2.
  • Essays 'Capital Punishment', 3.
  • Essays 'Capital Punishment', 4.
  • Essays 'Capital Punishment', 5.
Extract

Sentencing a prisoner to life in prison is a better allocation of resources than sentencing him to be executed.
First I'll present figures representing the dollar costs of capital punishment versus life in prison/no parole. Then I'll discuss the deterrent effect as the only legitimate rational justification for capital punishment. Then I'll discuss the externalities of capital punishment.
A Duke University study found... "The death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of imprisonment for life." …

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