It costs around $50,000 a year to imprison someone in California.
It’s questionable whether a human life can be balanced against money. But many of the states are going broke, and one reason is all those lifers who have to be given their prison privileges, such as sex-change operations and big-screen TV.
And the solution is not what California and other states have done, to let dangerous criminals out on the streets before their time is up, when they are certain to rob, mug, steal, or kill again.
The Catholic Church has opposed the death penalty for some time, but it is a prudential decision, not an absolute law.
Actually Catholic Church teaching has never ruled it out completely. Even JPII’s catechism doesn’t rule it out completely.
i’m for speedy trial and speedy executions. none of this decades on death row/dying on death row crap. one week max before execution carried out. bullet to the head.