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To: backtothestreets

Actually implementing the death penalty would save millions. These killers live better on death row then the families they killed.

We need to put in a death penalty fast-track.


2 posted on 10/20/2009 2:34:49 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: edcoil

Yep. In Texas they stay on death row for about 5 years. In Tennessee, they stay on death row until they die of natural causes. Who has the greatest cost?


13 posted on 10/20/2009 2:37:27 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: edcoil

Funny, the only fast tracked death penalty case in the past quarter century was Tim McVeigh.


19 posted on 10/20/2009 2:39:34 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: edcoil
"We need to put in a death penalty fast-track."

I agree...there's no reason to have 20+ years of Appeals (except to line Lawyers' pockets).

BUT, you will incur the rath of those who claim that innocent will be executed if thorough investigations/appeals are not exhausted.

48 posted on 10/20/2009 4:00:24 PM PDT by traditional1 ("don't gots to worry 'bout no mo'gage. Don't gots to buy no gas...Obama, he gonna take care o' me")
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To: edcoil
the cost to the state to reach that one execution is 30 million dollars

"First thing we do. Let's kill all the lawyers!"

57 posted on 10/20/2009 5:46:08 PM PDT by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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