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 Capital Punishment Is Expensive and Inefficient:
o Trying a death penalty case (before appeals!) is at least 10 times more costly than
trying the same crime without the death penalty.
o Death penalty cases take 17 vs 3.5 days for jury selection, 36 vs less than 7 days
for trial, 53 vs 5 days of judge’s work days compared to comparable non-death
penalty cases.
o Capital punishment is a bloated government program – are you surprised?
 Capital Punishment Fails Victims:
o Families are promised an execution, but the penalty is seldom imposed. Even less
often is the sentence carried out, and in all cases subsequent executions are carried
out only after years of anguish as families endlessly relive the worst event of the
lives in uncountable legal hearings.
 Fails to Improve Public Safety:
o For every study that demonstrates the effectiveness of capital punishment in
deterring certain crimes, there is another that demonstrates the opposite. Brilliant
minds working for years have been unable to show a robust relationship either
way. Common sense: Any deterrence effect is weak. Given the first bullet above,
we should just stop.
o Review bullet two above. Excessive resources spent on trying capital cases cannot
be used to combat any other crime, repair bridges, pay firemen, or improve public
safety in any other way.
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Capital Punishment Is Gross Government Intrusion:
o A government that can kill its own citizens can justify anything, given sufficient
time and motive.
o “How would you feel if your wife/son/daughter…?” You know that the
government is not responsible for your happiness, giving you a job, solving all of
your problems, promising all things to all people. So why should we demand the
government be responsible for exacting our personal revenge on murderers?
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