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Capital Cost an Issue in Utah

By Steve Hall

Charles Trentelman's latest column in the Ogden Standard-Examiner is, "The death penalty: Immoral, expensive and it lets them off easy."There are many social arguments against the state killing people: It's immoral to kill. The application of the death penalty is racially unbalanced. Threat of death doesn't deter crime. Innocent people get executed.Fiscal conservatives should hate the death penalty.Box Elder County spent more than $1 million trying to kill Glenn Howard Griffin for the 1984 murder of Bradley Newell Perry, and failed. Actually killing someone costs double or triple that.Is death punishment? If lethal injection is anything like the surgical anesthesia I had, you have no awareness of the end. There are no dreams, no fading out, no pain...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).